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λιταῖς (litais)

λιταῖς is an Ancient Greek form of λιτή, meaning “prayer”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1669: τρὶς δὲ λιταῖς· θεμένη δὲ κακὸν νόον, ἐχθοδοποῖσιν

Plato, Cratylus 428: … οβοῦμαι μέντοι μὴ τούτου πᾶν τοὐναντίον ᾖ, ὅτι μοί πως ἐπέρχεται λέγειν πρὸς σὲ τὸ τοῦ Ἀχιλλέως, ὃ ἐκεῖνος ἐν Λιταῖς πρὸς τὸν Αἴαντα λέγει. φησὶ δὲΑἶαν διογενὲς Τελαμώνιε, κοίρανε λαῶν,πάντα τί μοι κατὰ θυμὸν ἐείσω μυθήσασθαι. …

All forms of λιτή (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.