λέοντες (leontes)

λέοντες is an Ancient Greek form of λέων, meaning “lion”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.486: φῦλα πελειάων, ἠὲ μέγα πῶυ λέοντες

Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti 1: … ῶς βεβουλεῦσθαι. τί μου καταγελᾷς, ὦ μακαρία; πῶς γὰρ ἂν ἢ δοῖεν οὗτοι λόγον ἢ λάβοιεν, ἕως ὄνοι καὶ σύες καὶ λέοντές εἰσι; Θάρρει, φιλοτιμότατʼ ἀνθρώπων ἐγώ σοι παρέξω καὶ συνιέντας αὐτοὺς καὶ διαλεγομένους· μᾶλλον δʼ εἷς ἱκαν …

All forms of λέων (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.