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ποιμένες (poimenes)

ποιμένες is an Ancient Greek form of ποιμήν, meaning “shepherd, herdsman”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.317: ποιμένες ἄγραυλοι νηῶν φόβῳ, οἷά τε θῆρας

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 151.1: οἴαν τὰν ὐάκινθον ἐν ὄρρεσι ποίμενες ἄνδρες

All forms of ποιμήν (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.