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σπηλαίῳ (spelaio)

σπηλαίῳ is an Ancient Greek form of σπήλαιον, meaning “cave”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.39.3: … πάσχοι ὑπὸ τοῦ ξένου ἐπιβοῶντος, ἀμηχανῶν ὁ Ἡρακλῆς ὅ τι χρήσεται τῷ πράγματι εἰς νοῦν βάλλεται προσελάσαι τῷ σπηλαίῳ τὰς ἄλλας βοῦς. ὡς δὲ ἄρα τῆς συννόμου φωνῆς τε καὶ ὀσμῆς αἱ ἔντοσθεν ᾔσθοντο, ἀντεμυκῶντο ταῖς ἔκτοσθεν καὶ …

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.