δῆμον (demon)

δῆμον is an Ancient Greek form of δῆμος, meaning “people; district, land”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 1,278 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.105: Τῖφυς δʼ Ἁγνιάδης Σιφαέα κάλλιπε δῆμον

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.107.4: ἔδοξε δ’ αὐτοῖς ἐν Βοιωτοῖς περιμείνασι σκέψασθαι ὅτῳ τρόπῳ ἀσφαλέστατα διαπορεύσονται. τὸ δέ τι καὶ ἄνδρες τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐπῆγον αὐτοὺς κρύφα, ἐλπίσαντες δῆμόν τε καταπαύσειν καὶ τὰ μακρὰ τείχη οἰκοδομούμενα.

Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae 4·2: … χοῦσι βδελυττόμενοι καὶ καταφρονοῦντες, εἶτα χαίρουσι τοιούτων εἰς αὐτοὺς λεγομένων, οἷα Πλάτων ὁ κωμικὸς τὸν Δῆμον αὐτὸν λέγοντα ποιεῖ λαβοῦ, λαβοῦ τῆς χειρὸς ὡς τάχιστά μου, μέλλω στρατηγὸν χειροτονεῖν Ἀγύρριον καὶ πάλιν αἰ …

All forms of δῆμος (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.