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πλευραῖς (pleurais)

πλευραῖς is an Ancient Greek form of πλευρά, meaning “rib, side”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Agis and Cleomenes Cleomenes.23.2: ἡ Μεγάλη πόλις ἦν μὲν τότε καὶ καθʼ ἑαυτὴν οὐδέν τι μείων οὐδὲ ἀσθενεστέρα τῆς Λακεδαίμονος, εἶχε δὲ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν καὶ τοῦ Ἀντιγόνου βοήθειαν, ἐν πλευραῖς καθεζομένου καὶ δοκοῦντος ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ἐπικεκλῆσθαι μάλιστα τῶν Μεγαλοπολιτῶν σπουδασάντων.

All forms of πλευρά (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.