λύκοις (lykois)

λύκοις is an Ancient Greek form of λύκος, meaning “wolf”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Λύκος, “Lykos — Lycus (name)”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 21.8: … οῖς· εἰ δὲ τῇ λυκαίνῃ χαριστήρια ταῦτα καὶ τροφεῖα καὶ σωτήρια Ῥωμύλου τελοῦσιν, οὐκ ἀτόπως ὁ κύων σφάττεται· λύκοις γάρ ἐστι πολέμιος· εἰ μὴ νὴ Δία κολάζεται τὸ ζῷον ὡς παρενοχλοῦν τοὺς Λουπέρκους ὅταν περιθέωσι.

Aesop, Fables 267: Λύκοις καὶ κυσὶν ἦν ποτε ἔχθρα· κύων δὲ Ἕλλην ᾑρέθη στρατηγὸς κυσίν. Οὗτος πρὸς τὴν μάχην ἐβράδυνεν· οἱ δὲ λύκοι ἠπε …

All forms of λύκος (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.