θεούς (theous)

θεούς is an Ancient Greek form of θεός, meaning “god, goddess”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 1,780 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.478: οἰδάνει ἐν στήθεσσι, θεοὺς δʼ ἀνέηκεν ἀτίζειν;

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.83: … , ἡ δὲ ὀλιγαρχία, ἡ δὲ βασιλεία, ἡ δὲ τυραννίς. Τῆς δὲ δικαιοσύνης ἐστὶν εἴδη τρία· ἡ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῆς ἐστι περὶ θεούς, ἡ δὲ περὶ ἀνθρώπους, ἡ δὲ περὶ τοὺς ἀποιχομένους. οἱ μὲν γὰρ θύοντες κατὰ νόμους καὶ τῶν ἱερῶν ἐπιμελούμενοι …

Polybius, Histories 16.34.7: "ἐγὼ δὲ μάλιστα μὲν ἀξιῶ Ῥωμαίουσ" ἔφη "μὴ παραβαίνειν τὰς συνθήκας μηδὲ πολεμεῖν ἡμῖν· ἐὰν δὲ καὶ τοῦτο ποιῶσιν, ἀμυνούμεθα γενναίως, παρακαλέσαντες τοὺς θεούσ". οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ταῦτʼ εἰπόντες διεχωρίσθησαν ἀπʼ ἀλλήλων·

All forms of θεός (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.