δράκοντας (drakontas)

δράκοντας is an Ancient Greek form of δράκων, meaning “serpent, dragon”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 24.14: κυανέαις φρίσσοντας ὑπὸ σπείραισι δράκοντας

Strabo, Geography 17.3.5: … ειδεῖς μέν εἰσι τὴν μορφήν, κατὰ δὲ τὴν δίαιταν καὶ τὸ μέγεθος καὶ τὴν ἀλκὴν τὴν πρὸς μάχην ἐλέφασιν ἐοίκασι· δράκοντάς τε λέγει μεγάλους ὥστε καὶ πόαν ἐπιπεφυκέναι· τοὺς δὲ λέοντας τοῖς πώλοις τῶν ἐλεφάντων ἐπιτίθεσθαι, αἱμάξαντ …

All forms of δράκων (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.