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φοβερούς (phoberous)

φοβερούς is an Ancient Greek form of φοβερός, meaning “fearful, terrible”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.63.1: ‘καὶ νῦν τοῦ ἀφανοῦς τε τούτου διὰ τὸ ἀτέκμαρτον δέος καὶ διὰ τὸ ἤδη † φοβεροὺς παρόντας Ἀθηναίους, κατ’ ἀμφότερα ἐκπλαγέντες, καὶ τὸ ἐλλιπὲς τῆς γνώμης, ὧν ἕκαστός τι ᾠήθημεν πράξειν, ταῖς …

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 1.9.3: … μακροῦ τὴν πάλαι ἀνέλαβεν, ὡς τά τε μακρὰ τείχη ἐκτειχίσαι καὶ τῆς θαλάσσης αὖθις ἐπικρατῆσαι καὶ, τοὺς τότε φοβερούς σφισι Λακεδαιμονίους καὶ παρʼ ὀλίγον ἐλθόντας ἀφανίσαι τὴν πόλιν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ μέρει ἐκ τῶν ἐσχάτων κινδύνων δ …

All forms of φοβερός (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.