κριούς (krious)

κριούς is an Ancient Greek form of κριός, meaning “ram”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Sophocles, Ajax 237: δύο δʼ ἀργίποδας κριοὺς ἀνελὼν

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.4.1: … ν ἐχυροῖς χωρίοις, ἑκάτεροι ἐπεκαλοῦντο τὸν Κῦρον. ὁ δὲ Κῦρος αὐτὸς μὲν μένων ἐν Σάρδεσι μηχανὰς ἐποιεῖτο καὶ κριούς, ὡς τῶν μὴ πειθομένων ἐρείψων τὰ τείχη, Ἀδούσιον δὲ ἄνδρα Πέρσην καὶ τἆλλα οὐκ ἄφρονα οὐδʼ ἀπόλεμον, καὶ πάνυ …

All forms of κριός (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.