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πολεμικάς (polemikas)

πολεμικάς is an Ancient Greek form of πολεμικός, meaning “of war, military”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 1.4: … ν τὸ μέτριον καὶ τὸ ἄγαν ἀποβαλοῦσαν. ὅλως μὲν οὖν ἐν τοῖς τότε χρόνοις ἡ Ῥώμη μάλιστα τῆς ἀρετῆς τὸ περὶ τὰς πολεμικὰς καὶ στρατιωτικὰς ἐκύδαινε πράξεις, καὶ μαρτυρεῖ τὸ τὴν ἀρετὴν ὑπʼ αὐτῶν ἑνὶ τῷ τῆς ἀνδρείας ὀνόματι προσαγορε …

Xenophon, Economics 1.17: … αλέγεσθαι; οὐ μὰ Δίʼ, ἔφη, οὐκ ἔγωγε, ἀλλὰ καὶ πάνυ εὐπατριδῶν ἐνίων γε δοκούντων εἶναι, οὓς ἐγὼ ὁρῶ τοὺς μὲν πολεμικάς, τοὺς δὲ καὶ εἰρηνικὰς ἐπιστήμας ἔχοντας, ταύτας δὲ οὐκ ἐθέλοντας ἐργάζεσθαι, ὡς μὲν ἐγὼ οἶμαι, διʼ αὐτὸ τοῦτ …

All forms of πολεμικός (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.