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σατράπας (satrapas)

σατράπας is an Ancient Greek form of σατράπης, meaning “satrap, provincial governor”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Cato the Younger 57.2: … ον ἐν Σικελίᾳ μέσον εἶχε περιπατῶν ἐπὶ τιμῇ φιλοσοφίας, ἐγκαλοῦσι. τότε δʼ οὖν καί τὸν Ἰόβαν ἔπαυσε μονονουχὶ σατράπας πεποιημένον ἑαυτοῦ τοὺς περὶ τὸν Σκηπίωνα, κἀκείνους διήλλαξεν.

Hyperides, Against Demosthenes frag_4: … τοὺς μὲν Ἕλληνας ἅπαντας πρεςβεύεσθαι πεποίηκας ὡς Ἀλέξανδρον, οὐκ ἔχοντας ἄλλην οὐδεμίαν ἀποςτροφήν, τοὺς δὲ ςατράπας, οἳ αὐτοὶ ἂν ἧκον ἑκόντες πρὸς ταύτην τὴν δύναμιν, ἔχοντες τὰ χρήματα καὶ τοὺς στρατιώτας ὅσους ἕκαστος αὐτῶν …

All forms of σατράπης (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.