ζῴοις (zoois)

ζῴοις is an Ancient Greek form of ζῷον, meaning “living creature, animal”. It is the dative plural neuter noun.

Found 149 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.87: μὴ διαφέρειν τε ἡδονὴν ἡδονῆς, μηδὲ ἥδιόν τι εἶναι· καὶ τὴν μὲν εὐδοκητὴν πᾶσι ζῴοις, τὸν δʼ ἀποκρουστικόν. ἡδονὴν μέντοι τὴν τοῦ σώματος, ἣν καὶ τέλος εἶναι, καθά φησι καὶ Παναίτιος ἐν τῷ Περὶ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 7.86: αἴθʼ ἐπʼ ἐμεῦ ζωοῖς ἐναρίθμιος ὤφελες εἶμεν,

Homeric Hymns, Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 242: ζώοις ἡμέτερός τε πόσις κεκλημένος εἴης,

All forms of ζῷον (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.