φίλους (philous)

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

Found 1,373 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1343: ῥιγεδανὴ ἑτάροιο φίλους ἐπικεκλομένοιο.

Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 227: οἶνον φιλοῦσʼ εὔζωρον ὥσπερ καὶ πρὸ τοῦ·

Appianus of Alexandria, Civil Wars 5.5.44: … τον σῴζεσθαι μὴ κατορθοῦσιν. εἰ δὲ ὕποπτος ἢ ἄπιστος ἐχθροῦ πᾶσα συμβουλή, οὐκ ὀκνῶ καὶ παρακαλεῖν σε μὴ τοὺς φιλοὺς τίνυσθαι τῆς ἐμῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τύχης, ἀλλʼ εἰς ἐμὲ συναγαγεῖν πάντα, τὸν πάντων αἴτιον. ἀφʼ ἧς δὴ γνώμης αὐτο …

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.