φαρμάκῳ (pharmako)

φαρμάκῳ is an Ancient Greek form of φάρμακον, meaning “drug, remedy, poison”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

It can also be a form of φάρμακος, “sorcerer; scapegoat”.

Found 87 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.164: φαρμάκῳ ἔψηχεν θηρὸς κάρη, εἰσόκε δή μιν

Hippocrates, De ulceribus 24: … νηται· ὄξει δὲ κατανίζειν, καὶ θρόμβον αἵματος ἐν τοῖσι σχάσμασι μὴ ἐᾷν ἐγκαταλείπεσθαι, καταχρίσας τῷ ἐναίμῳ φαρμακῳ, εἴρια οἰσυποῦντα κατεξασμένα μαλθακὰ ἐπιδῆσαι, ῥήνας οἴνῳ καὶ ἐλαίῳ, καὶ ἐχέτω τὸ σχασθὲν ὅκως ἀνάῤῥους εἴη …

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo 1.3·5: … ιρίη. χρὴ δὲ καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν μετὰ τὴν κουρὴν τὴν ἐν χρῷ, ἢν μὴ μέγα ἥδε ἀνύῃ, ξυρεῖν ἐς διαπνοήν· ἀτὰρ ἠδὲ ἐς φαρμάκω ν δριμέων χρίσιν, τοῦ διὰ τῆς λημνήστιδος, ἢ ἀδάρκην, ἢ θαψίην, ἢ σίνηπι ὑγρὸν ἐξ ὕδατος ξὺν ἄρτῳ διπλῷ ἐς τρ …

All forms of φάρμακον (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.