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πότους (potous)

πότους is an Ancient Greek form of πότος, meaning “drinking party”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa 1.3: … καὶ στρωμνὰς ἐκβαλεῖν πολυτελεῖς καὶ τραπέζας, οὐδὲ παυσαμένους πολέμων ἑορτάζειν καὶ θύειν, ἀλλὰ δεῖπνα καὶ πότους ἐάσαντας ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις καὶ ταῖς παλαίστραις διαπονεῖσθαι καὶ ἀσκεῖν.

All forms of πότος (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.