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κλοπῆς (klopes)

κλοπῆς is an Ancient Greek form of κλοπεύς, meaning “thief; secret doer, perpetrator”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 63 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 12.1: ὁ μὲν οὖν κατήγορος ἦν Λεύκιος Ἀπουλήιος, ἔγκλημα δὲ κλοπῆς περὶ τὰ Τυρρηνικὰ χρήματα, καὶ δῆτα καὶ θύραι τινὲς ἐλέγοντο χαλκαῖ παρʼ αὐτῷ φανῆναι τῶν αἰχμαλώτων, ὁ δὲ δῆμος ἐξηρέθιστο καὶ δῆλος ἦν ἐκ πάσης προφάσεως κατʼ αὐτοῦ τῇ ψήφῳ χρησόμενος.

All forms of κλοπεύς (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.