πτωχόν (ptochon)

πτωχόν is an Ancient Greek form of πτωχός, meaning “beggar”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.84: Ἀρτάβαζος. Πρὸς τοὺς ναυαγούς. Πρὸς τοὺς φυγάδας. Πρὸς πτωχόν. Πρὸς Λαΐδα. Πρὸς Πῶρον. Πρὸς Λαΐδα περὶ τοῦ κατόπτρου. Ἑρμείας. Ἐνύπνιον. Πρὸς τὸν ἐπὶ τῆς κύλικος. Φιλόμηλο …

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 49.3: πρὸς Φίλιππον τὸν ὀρφεοτελεστὴν παντελῶς πτωχὸν ὄντα, λέγοντα δʼ ὅτι οἱ παρʼ αὐτῷ μυηθέντες μετὰ τὴν τοῦ βίου τελευτὴν εὐδαιμονοῦσι, τί οὖν, ὦ ἀνόητε εἶπεν οὐ τὴν ταχίστην ἀποθνήσκεις, ἵνʼ ἅμα παύσῃ κακοδαιμονίαν καὶ πενίαν κλαίων;

All forms of πτωχός (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.