σπήλαια (spelaia)

σπήλαια is an Ancient Greek form of σπήλαιον, meaning “cave”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Sertorius 17.2: τῶν οὖν βαρβάρων, ὁσάκις φόβῳ πολέμου καταδύντες εἰς τὰ σπήλαια καὶ τὴν λείαν εἴσω συναγαγόντες ἀτρεμοῖεν, ὄντων ἀλήπτων ὑπὸ βίας, τόν δὲ Σερτώριον τότε διακεκριμένον ἀπὸ το …

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War 3.334: τῶν γὰρ εἰς τὰ σπήλαιά τις συμπεφευγότων, πολλοὶ δʼ οὗτοι πλῆθος ἦσαν, ἱκετεύει τὸν Ἀντώνιον ὀρέξαι δεξιὰν αὐτῷ πίστιν τε σωτηρίας καὶ βοήθειαν πρὸς ἄνοδον·

All forms of σπήλαιον (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.