τύραννον (tyrannon)

τύραννον is an Ancient Greek form of τύραννος, meaning “absolute ruler, tyrant”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 322 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.20.2: Ἀθηναίων γοῦν τὸ πλῆθος Ἵππαρχον οἴονται ὑφ’ Ἁρμοδίου καὶ Ἀριστογείτονος τύραννον ὄντα ἀποθανεῖν, καὶ οὐκ ἴσασιν ὅτι Ἱππίας μὲν πρεσβύτατος ὢν ἦρχε τῶν Πεισιστράτου υἱέων, Ἵππαρχος δὲ καὶ Θεσ …

Plato, Theaetetus 174: … οις καὶ ταῖς τῶν ἄλλων μεγαλαυχίαις οὐ προσποιήτως ἀλλὰ τῷ ὄντι γελῶν ἔνδηλος γιγνόμενος ληρώδης δοκεῖ εἶναι. τύραννόν τε γὰρ ἢ βασιλέα ἐγκωμιαζόμενον, ἕνα τῶν νομέων, οἷον συβώτην ἢ ποιμένα ἤ τινα βουκόλον, ἡγεῖται ἀκούειν εὐδα …

Lucian of Samosata, Tyrannicida 0: ἀνῆλθεν τις ἐς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν ἀποκτενῶν τὸν τυραννον· αὐτὸν μὲν οὐχ εὗρεν, τὸν δε υἱὸν αὐτοὺ ἀποκτείνας κατέλιπε τὸ ξίφος ἐν τῷ σώματι. ἐλθὼν ὁ τύραννος καὶ τὸν υ …

All forms of τύραννος (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.