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φίλας (philas)

φίλας is an Ancient Greek form of φίλος, meaning “dear, beloved; friend”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 67 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 7.104: ἄκλητον κείνοιο φίλας ἐς χεῖρας ἐρείσαις,

Plutarch, Demetrius 22.1: … ὐρώστως δὲ καὶ τῶν Ῥοδίων ἀμυνομένων, οὐδὲν ἄξιον λόγου πράττων ὁ Δημήτριος ὅμως ἐθυμομάχει πρὸς αὐτούς, ὅτι, Φίλας τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτῷ γράμματα καὶ στρώματα καὶ ἱμάτια πεμψάσης, λαβόντες τὸ πλοῖον, ὥσπερ εἶχε, πρὸς Πτολεμαῖον …

Sophocles, Ichneutae 269: []υ []φιλας

All forms of φίλος (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.