πειθοῦς (peithous)

πειθοῦς is an Ancient Greek form of πειθώ, meaning “persuasion; (mis-parse of πείθω)”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Πειθώ, “Peitho — Persuasion, goddess”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 78 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.11.65: Ὦ γέρον, ὦ Πύρρων, πῶς ἢ πόθεν ἔκδυσιν εὗρες λατρείης δοξῶν [τε] κενεοφροσύνης τε σοφιστῶν, καὶ πάσης ἀπάτης πειθοῦς τʼ ἀπελύσαο δεσμά; οὐδʼ ἔμελέν σοι ταῦτα μεταλλῆσαι, τίνες αὖραι Ἑλλάδʼ ἔχουσι, πόθεν τε καὶ εἰς ὅ, τι κύρει …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae 2: … αι λαμπάσιν; ἢ ὅτι πέντε δεῖσθαι θεῶν τοὺς γαμοῦντας οἴονται, Διὸς τελείου καὶ Ἥρας τελείας καὶ Ἀφροδίτης καὶ Πειθοῦς, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δʼ Ἀρτέμιδος, ἣν ταῖς λοχείαις καὶ ταῖς ὠδῖσιν αἱ γυναῖκες ἐπικαλοῦνται;

All forms of πειθώ (conjugation 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.