παλαιῶν (palaion)

παλαιῶν is an Ancient Greek form of παλαιός, meaning “old, ancient”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective.

Found 290 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.3.1: δηλοῖ δέ μοι καὶ τόδε τῶν παλαιῶν ἀσθένειαν οὐχ ἥκιστα· πρὸ γὰρ τῶν Τρωικῶν οὐδὲν φαίνεται πρότερον κοινῇ ἐργασαμένη ἡ Ἑλλάς·

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.3.60: … νὴρ δέμας ἦν, εἴ μοι προσέχεις, ἀπὸ χρισμῶν· Στράτωνα τοῦτόν φημί σοι Λάμψακος ὅν ποτʼ ἔφυσεν· ἀεὶ δὲ νόσοισι παλαίων θνήσκει λαθών, οὐδʼ ᾔσθετο.

Polybius, Histories 5.3.4: ὁρῶν δὲ τό τε πολισμάτιον [τοὺς Πρόννους] δυσπολιόρκητον ὂν καὶ τὴν χώραν στενήν, παρέπλει τῷ στόλῳ, καὶ καθωρμίσθη πρὸς τὴν τῶν Παλαιῶν πόλιν.

All forms of παλαιός (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.