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πλοῦ (plou)

πλοῦ is an Ancient Greek form of πλόος, meaning “sailing, voyage”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 72 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.52.3: τοῦ δὲ οἴκαδε πλοῦ μᾶλλον διεσκόπουν ὅπῃ κομισθήσονται, δεδιότες μὴ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι νομίσαντες λελύσθαι τὰς σπονδάς, διότι ἐς χεῖρας ἦλθον, οὐκ ἐῶσι σφᾶς ἀποπλεῖν.

Sophocles, Ichneutae 207: ζήτει τε κἀξίχνευε καὶ πλού[τει λαβὼν

Polybius, Histories 1.50.1: πλου. Πόπλιος δʼ ὁ τῶν Ῥωμαίων στρατηγὸς θεωρῶν τοὺς μὲν πολεμίους παρὰ τὴν αὑτοῦ δόξαν οὔτʼ εἴκοντας οὔτε καταπεπληγμένους τὸν ἐπίπλουν ἀλλὰ πρὸς τῷ ναυμαχεῖν ὄντας,

All forms of πλόος (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.