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πόθῳ (potho)

πόθῳ is an Ancient Greek form of πόθος, meaning “longing”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 139 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.286: σεῖο πόθῳ μινύθουσα δυσάμμορος, ᾧ ἔπι πολλὴν

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 29.40: προμόλοιμί κε παυσάμενος χαλέπω πόθω.

Euripides, Heracles 1408: ποθῶ· πατρός τε στέρνα προσθέσθαι θέλω.

All forms of πόθος (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.