τυφλοί (typhloi)

τυφλοί is an Ancient Greek form of τυφλός, meaning “blind”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of τυφλόω, “blind”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.56: … καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ ἄνθρωποι. ἐρωτηθεὶς διὰ τί προσαίταις μὲν ἐπιδιδόασι, φιλοσόφοις δὲ οὔ, ἔφη, ὅτι χωλοὶ μὲν καὶ τυφλοὶ γενέσθαι ἐλπίζουσι, φιλοσοφῆσαι δʼ οὐδέποτε. φιλάργυρον ᾔτει· τοῦ δὲ βραδύνοντος, ἄνθρωπε, εἶπεν, εἰς τροφήν …

Euripides, Cyclops 673: Οὖτίς με τυφλοῖ βλέφαρον.

Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos 10: … γυιὰς πεντακοσίας, οὕτως οὐδʼ οἱ πελάζοντες ἀρετῇ τῶν μακρὰν ὄντων ἧττόν εἰσιν ἐν κακίᾳ καὶ καθάπερ οἱ τυφλοὶ τυφλοί εἰσι, κἂν ὀλίγον ὕστερον ἀναβλέπειν μέλλωσιν, οὕτως οἱ προκόπτοντες, ἄχρι οὗ τὴν ἀρετὴν ἀναλάβωσιν, ἀνόητοι κ …

All forms of τυφλός (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.