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φρουροῖς (phrourois)

φρουροῖς is an Ancient Greek form of φρουρέω, meaning “guard, keep watch”. It is the 2nd person singular present active optative.

It can also be a form of φρουρός, “guard, sentinel”.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 8.2: ὑποψίαν οὖν τοῖς περὶ τὰς πύλας φρουροῖς τοῦ βασιλέως παρέχων, καὶ ὑφορώμενος ὑπʼ αὐτῶν καὶ ταραττόμενος πρὸς τὰς ἀνακρίσεις, οὐκ ἔλαθε τὴν σκάφην τῷ …

All forms of φρουρέω (conjugation 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.