μεγέθει (megethei)

μεγέθει is an Ancient Greek form of μέγεθος, meaning “size, greatness”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 398 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2.2: … ς τε καθ’ ἡμέραν ἀναγκαίου τροφῆς πανταχοῦ ἂν ἡγούμενοι ἐπικρατεῖν, οὐ χαλεπῶς ἀπανίσταντο, καὶ δι’ αὐτὸ οὔτε μεγέθει πόλεων ἴσχυον οὔτε τῇ ἄλλῃ παρασκευῇ.

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis acutorum morborum libri duo 1.8: … γιγνόμενος, καὶ ἐρύθημα ἴσχει. κίων δὲ τοῦδε τοῦ πάθεος ἡ ἐπίκλησις. εἰ κατὰ πέρας μοῦνον στρογγύ λλεται, καὶ μεγέθεϊ πελιδνὸς γίγνεται, καὶ ὑπομελαν ίζει, σταφυλὴ ἐπώνυμον τόδε τὸ πάθος. πάντα γὰρ ἴκελα αὐτέῃ, καὶ σχῆμα, καὶ χ …

All forms of μέγεθος (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.