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δημότας (demotas)

δημότας is an Ancient Greek form of δημότης, meaning “citizen of a deme; commoner”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 6.4: … ἄρχειν μὲν βουλῆς θεοτιμήτους βασιλῆας, οἷσι μέλει Σπάρτας ἱμερόεσσα πόλις, πρεσβύτας τε γέροντας, ἔπειτα δὲ δημότας ἄνδρας, εὐθείαις ῥήτραις ἀνταπαμειβομένους.

All forms of δημότης (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.