πλήθει (plethei)

πλήθει is an Ancient Greek form of πλῆθος, meaning “multitude, crowd, number”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 939 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2.6: … Ἀθηναίους οἱ δυνατώτατοι ὡς βέβαιον ὂν ἀνεχώρουν, καὶ πολῖται γιγνόμενοι εὐθὺς ἀπὸ παλαιοῦ μείζω ἔτι ἐποίησαν πλήθει ἀνθρώπων τὴν πόλιν, ὥστε καὶ ἐς Ἰωνίαν ὕστερον ὡς οὐχ ἱκανῆς οὔσης τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἀποικίας ἐξέπεμψαν.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.5.80: Πλήθει δὲ βιβλίων καὶ ἀριθμῷ στίχων σχεδὸν ἅπαντας παρελήλακε τοὺς κατʼ αὐτὸν περιπατητικούς, εὐπαίδευτος ὢν καὶ πολ …

Arrian, Indica 4.15: ὁ δὲ Ἴστρος ὀλίγος μὲν ἀνίσχει ἀπὸ τῶν πηγέων, δέκεται δὲ πολλοὺς ποταμούς, ἀλλὰ οὐδὲ πλήθεϊ ἴσους τοῖσιν Ἰνδῶν ποταμοῖσιν, οἳ τὸν Ἰνδὸν καὶ τὸν Γάγγεα ἐκδιδοῦσι, πλωτοὺς δὲ δὴ κάρτα ὀλίγους, ὧν τοὺς μὲν αὐτὸς ἰδὼν οἶδα, τὸν Ἔνον τε καὶ τὸν Σάον.

All forms of πλῆθος (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.