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πλέθρα (plethra)

πλέθρα is an Ancient Greek form of πλέθρον, meaning “plethron (100 feet)”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.38.3: διαλειπούσας δὲ τὰς ὁλκάδας ὅσον δύο πλέθρα ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων κατέστησεν, ὅπως, εἴ τις βιάζοιτο ναῦς, εἴη κατάφευξις ἀσφαλὴς καὶ πάλιν καθ’ ἡσυχίαν ἔκπλους. παρασκευαζόμενοι δὲ ταῦτα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν διετέλεσαν οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι μέχρι νυκτός.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.4.5: … ν δαπέδῳ· ὁ δʼ ἐπʼ ἐννέα κεῖτο πέλεθρα οὐκ ἐπὶ μεγέθει πεποιῆσθαι τοῦ Τιτυοῦ φασιν, ἀλλʼ ἔνθα ὁ Τιτυὸς ἐτέθη, Πλέθρα ἐννέα ὄνομα εἶναι τῷ χωρίῳ.

All forms of πλέθρον (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.