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φρουρίοις (phrouriois)

φρουρίοις is an Ancient Greek form of φρούριον, meaning “fort, garrison, stronghold”. It is the dative plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of φρουρέω, “guard, keep watch”.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.13.6: χρήμασι μὲν οὖν οὕτως ἐθάρσυνεν αὐτούς, ὁπλίτας δὲ τρισχιλίους καὶ μυρίους εἶναι ἄνευ τῶν ἐν τοῖς φρουρίοις καὶ τῶν παρ’ ἔπαλξιν ἑξακισχιλίων καὶ μυρίων.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.12.8: … λλήνιον Ἀρσινόης ἱερόν, Λευκίππου τε θυγατρὸς καὶ γυναικῶν τῶν Πολυδεύκους καὶ Κάστορος ἀδελφῆς. πρὸς δὲ τοῖς Φρουρίοις καλουμένοις ναός ἐστιν Ἀρτέμιδος, καὶ προελθοῦσιν ὀλίγον πεποίηται μνῆμα τοῖς ἐξ Ἤλιδος μάντεσι, καλουμένοις …

All forms of φρούριον (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.