πόλεσιν (polesin)

πόλεσιν is an Ancient Greek form of πολύς, meaning “much, many, great”.

It can also be a form of πόλις, “city, state”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 459 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.427: ἡ δʼ ἔπορʼ Αἰσονίδῃ πολέσιν μετὰ καὶ τὸ φέρεσθαι

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.5.1: … μένων ἀνδρῶν οὐ τῶν ἀδυνατωτάτων κέρδους τοῦ σφετέρου αὐτῶν ἕνεκα καὶ τοῖς ἀσθενέσι τροφῆς, καὶ προσπίπτοντες πόλεσιν ἀτειχίστοις καὶ κατὰ κώμας οἰκουμέναις ἥρπαζον καὶ τὸν πλεῖστον τοῦ βίου ἐντεῦθεν ἐποιοῦντο, οὐκ ἔχοντός πω α …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae 41: … αὶ Εὔανδρος καὶ Αἰνείας ἐκ θαλάττης προσεκομίσθησαν), ἐκεῖνο δʼ ἄν τις μᾶλλον εἰκάσειεν, ὅτι τὰ μὲν καλὰ ταῖς πόλεσίν ἐστι τὰ δʼ ἀναγκαῖα· καὶ μέγιστον τῶν μὲν καλῶν ἡ εὐνομία, τῶν δʼ ἀναγκαίων ἡ εὐπορία; ἐπεὶ τοίνυν εὐκοσμίαν …

All forms of πολύς (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.