περιοίκους (perioikous)

περιοίκους is an Ancient Greek form of περίοικος, meaning “neighbour, dependent”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.17.1: … σφαλείας ὅσον ἐδύναντο μάλιστα τὰς πόλεις ᾤκουν, ἐπράχθη δὲ οὐδὲν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ἔργον ἀξιόλογον, εἰ μὴ εἴ τι πρὸς περιοίκους τοὺς αὐτῶν ἑκάστοις· οἱ γὰρ ἐν Σικελίᾳ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐχώρησαν δυνάμεως. οὕτω πανταχόθεν ἡ Ἑλλὰς ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόν …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 1.14·2: … ὶ πλήττει, ἧς αὐτίκα ὕδωρ ἐξεβλύσθη πολύ τε καὶ διαυγέστατον. οἱ δὲ Ἀμαληκῖται κατὰ τῶν Ἑβραίων ἐχώρουν, τοὺς περιοἴκους συμμάχους προσκαλεσάμενοι. Μωυσῆς δὲ τὸ μάχιμον τοῦ λαοῦ τῶν ἄλλων ἀποδιελών, καὶ Ἰησοῦν τὸν τοῦ Ναυῆ ἐπιστήσ …

All forms of περίοικος (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.