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φρεσίν (phresin)

φρεσίν is an Ancient Greek form of φρήν, meaning “midriff; heart, mind (pl. φρένες)”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 130 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.950: δωσέμεναι, ὅ κεν ᾗσι μετὰ φρεσὶν ἰθύσειεν.

Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes 66: ὁρμαίνων δόλον αἰπὺν ἐνὶ φρεσίν, οἷά τε φῶτες

All forms of φρήν (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.