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πηγαῖς (pegais)

πηγαῖς is an Ancient Greek form of πηγή, meaning “spring, stream”.

It can also be a form of Πηγαί, “Pegae — "the springs", Megarian port”. It is the dative plural feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of πηγός, “strong, solid”. It is the dative plural feminine adjective.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.111.2: μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον χίλιοι Ἀθηναίων ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς τὰς ἐν Πηγαῖς ἐπιβάντες (εἶχον δ’ αὐτοὶ τὰς Πηγάς) παρέπλευσαν ἐς Σικυῶνα Περικλέους τοῦ Ξανθίππου στρατηγοῦντος, καὶ ἀποβάντες Σικυωνίων τοὺς προσμείξαντας μάχῃ ἐκράτησαν.

Euripides, Cyclops 496: βοτρύων φίλαισι πηγαῖς

All forms of πηγή (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.