πυρσόν (pyrson)

πυρσόν is an Ancient Greek form of πυρσός, meaning “firebrand, torch; fires”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Electra 587: πόλει πυρσόν, ὃς παλαιᾷ φυγᾷ

Plutarch, Romulus 29.5: … αὐτῇ θεραπαινίδας εὐπρεπεῖς κοσμήσαντας ὡς ἐλευθέρας ἀποστεῖλαι πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους· εἶτα νύκτωρ τὴν Φιλωτίδα πυρσὸν ἆραι, τοὺς δὲ Ῥωμαίους ἐπελθεῖν μετὰ τῶν ὅπλων καὶ χρήσασθαι κοιμωμένοις τοῖς πολεμίοις. ταῦτα δʼ ἐδρᾶτο πεισ …

All forms of πυρσός (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.