μέτρια (metria)

μέτρια is an Ancient Greek form of μέτριος, meaning “moderate”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 154 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.6.4: μετρίᾳ δ’ αὖ ἐσθῆτι καὶ ἐς τὸν νῦν τρόπον πρῶτοι Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἐχρήσαντο καὶ ἐς τὰ ἄλλα πρὸς τοὺς πολλοὺς οἱ τὰ μείζω κεκτημένοι ἰσοδίαιτοι μάλιστα κατέστησαν.

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 5: … γμασιν, ὅταν πέσῃ δέ, πλεῖστα συντρίβει καλά. σὺ δʼ οὔθʼ ὑπερβάλλοντα τρόφιμʼ ἀπώλεσας ἀγαθά, τὰ νυνὶ τʼ ἐστὶ μέτριά σοι κακά. ὥστʼ ἀνὰ μέσον που καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ὂν φέρε. ἀλλʼ ὅμως τοιούτων ὄντων τῶν πραγμάτων ἔνιοι διὰ τὴν ἀφρο …

All forms of μέτριος (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.