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εὐνάς (eunas)

εὐνάς is an Ancient Greek form of εὐνή, meaning “bed; marriage-bed”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1713: ἔνθʼ εὐνὰς ἐβάλοντο καὶ ἔσχεθον· αὐτίκα δʼ Ἠὼς

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.11.118: … παρῳδῆσαι εἰς αὐτὸν οὕτω· καὶ μὴν Στίλπωνʼ εἰσεῖδον χαλέπʼ ἄλγεʼ ἔχοντα ἐν Μεγάροις, ὅθι φασὶ Τυφωέος ἔμμεναι εὐνάς. ἔνθα τʼ ἐρίζεσκεν, πολλοὶ δʼ ἀμφʼ αὐτὸν ἑταῖροι· τὴν δʼ ἀρετὴν παρὰ γράμμα διώκοντες κατέτριβον.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 13.63: ἐξ εὐνᾶς ἔσπευσεν ἑτοιμοτάταν ἐπὶ δαῖτα·

All forms of εὐνή (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.