ξίφεσι (xiphesi)

ξίφεσι is an Ancient Greek form of ξίφος, meaning “sword”. It is the dative plural neuter noun.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Electra 164a: ξίφεσι δʼ ἀμφιτόμοις λυγρὰν

Procopius, De Bellis 8.23.30: … οι ἀρετῆς τι μετεποιοῦντο, ἄγχιστά πη ἀλλήλων γινόμενοι ἐν χρῷ τε ξυνιόντες ἀπὸ τῶν καταστρωμάτων ξυνέμισγον, ξίφεσί τε καὶ δόρασιν, ὥσπερ ἐν πεδίῳ, μαχόμενοι.

All forms of ξίφος (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.