θρήνους (threnous)

θρήνους is an Ancient Greek form of θρῆνος, meaning “lament, dirge”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.90: … ῳ τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς κίνημα. λέγουσι δὲ μηδὲ κατὰ ψιλὴν τὴν ὅρασιν ἢ τὴν ἀκοὴν γίνεσθαι ἡδονάς. τῶν γοῦν μιμουμένων θρήνους ἡδέως ἀκούομεν, τῶν δὲ κατʼ ἀλήθειαν ἀηδῶς. μέσας τε καταστάσεις ὠνόμαζον ἀηδονίαν καὶ ἀπονίαν. πολὺ μέντοι τ …

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 6.24.2: … ηλοῖ ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας ὑπεμνηματίσθαι, καὶ εἰς τοὺς πρώτους δὲ πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι Ψαλμοὺς ἔτι τε τὰ εἰς τοὺς Θρήνους, ὧν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐληλύθασιν τόμοι πέντε, ἐν οἷς μέμνηται καὶ τῶν Περὶ ἀναστάσεως·

All forms of θρῆνος (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.