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τάφῳ (tapho)

τάφῳ is an Ancient Greek form of τάφος, meaning “tomb, burial”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 120 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.3: … ἐπιγεγράφθαι τόδε τὸ ἐλεγεῖον· Εὐμόλπου φίλον υἱὸν ἔχει τὸ Φαληρικὸν οὖδας, Μουσαῖον, φθιμένου σῶμʼ, ὑπὸ τῷδε τάφῳ. ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ Μουσαίου καὶ Εὐμολπίδαι καλοῦνται παρʼ Ἀθηναίοις.

Strabo, Geography 10.2.14: οὐκ ὤκνησαν δέ τινες τὴν Κεφαλληνίαν τὴν αὐτὴν τῷ Δουλιχίῳ φάναι, οἱ δὲ τῇ Τάφῳ, καὶ Ταφίους τοὺς Κεφαλληνίους, τοὺς δʼ αὐτοὺς καὶ Τηλεβόας, καὶ τὸν Ἀμφιτρύωνα δεῦρο στρατεῦσαι μετὰ Κεφάλου …

All forms of τάφος (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.