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σιωπήν (siopen)

σιωπήν is an Ancient Greek form of σιωπή, meaning “silence”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 63 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 298: τὴν νῦν σιωπὴν ὡς ἐσιγήθη κακῶς,

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 34.1: ἐκ τούτου τά τε παιδία καὶ τὴν Οὐεργιλίαν ἀναστήσασα μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων γυναικῶν ἐβάδιζεν εἰς τὸ στρατόπεδον τῶν Οὐολούσκων. ἡ δʼ ὄψις αὐτῶν τό τʼ οἰκτρὸν καὶ τοῖς πολεμίοις ἐνεποίησεν αἰδῶ καὶ σιωπήν. ἔτυχε δʼ ὁ Μάρκιος ἐπὶ βήματος καθεζόμενος μετὰ τῶν ἡγεμονικῶν.

All forms of σιωπή (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.