ποικίλην (poikilen)

ποικίλην is an Ancient Greek form of ποικίλος, meaning “variegated, intricate, cunning”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 3.8.2: … εῖν ἀλλὰ τῷ μᾶλλον ἰσχύειν ἐλέγχονται. ἀπʼ ἄλλης δʼ εἶπον ἀρχῆς σκοποῦντι τοῦ οἴνου τὴν δύναμιν, οὐδὲν κωλύει ποικίλην εἶναι καὶ τῇ ποσότητι συμμεταβάλλουσαν. ὥσπερ τὸ πῦρ τὸν κέραμον, ἂν μὲν μέτριον, συγκρατύνει καὶ πήγνυσιν· ἂ …

Lucian of Samosata, Juppiter Tragoedus 16: ἐπεὶ δὲ ταῦτα ἐννοῶν γίγνομαι κατὰ τὴν Ποικίλην, ὁρῶ πλῆθος ἀνθρώπων πάμπολυ συνεστηκός, ἐνίους μὲν ἔνδον ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ στοᾷ, πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ ἐν τῷ ὑπαίθρῳ, καί …

All forms of ποικίλος (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.