πλάγια (plagia)

πλάγια is an Ancient Greek form of πλάγιος, meaning “sideways, slanting, oblique”. It is the dative singular feminine adjective or nominative dual feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of πλάγιον, “side, flank”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun or adjective.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.35.4: … τεώρου, οἱ δὲ μὴ ἐνδοῦναι· ῥᾷον δ’ οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἠμύνοντο ἢ ἐν τῷ πρίν, οὐκ οὔσης σφῶν τῆς κυκλώσεως ἐς τὰ πλάγια.

Lucian of Samosata, Contemplantes 3: οἶσθα, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, ἅπερ εἴωθα λέγειν ἐγὼ πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἐπειδὰν πλέωμεν; ὁπόταν γὰρ τὸ πνεῦμα καταιγίσαν πλαγίᾳ τῇ ὀθόνῃ ἐμπέσῃ καὶ τὸ κῦμα ὑψηλὸν ἀρθῇ, τότε ὑμεῖς μὲν ὑπʼ ἀγνοίας κελεύετε τὴν ὀθόνην στεῖλαι ἢ ἐνδοῦναι ὀλ …

Arrian, Tactica 20.3: λέγεται δέ τις καὶ ἐπαγωγή, καὶ δεξιὰ παραγωγή, καὶ ἄλλη εὐώνυμος παραγωγή, καὶ πλαγία δὲ φάλαγξ ἐστί τις, καὶ ὀρθία φάλαγξ ἄλλη, καὶ λοξὴ φάλαγξ, καὶ παρεμβολή, ἔτι γε μὴν πρόσταξις καὶ ἔνταξις καὶ ὑπόταξις.

All forms of πλάγιος (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.