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φυγαί (phygai)

φυγαί is an Ancient Greek form of φυγή, meaning “flight, escape; exile”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.23.2: οὔτε γὰρ πόλεις τοσαίδε ληφθεῖσαι ἠρημώθησαν, αἱ μὲν ὑπὸ βαρβάρων, αἱ δ’ ὑπὸ σφῶν αὐτῶν ἀντιπολεμούντων (εἰσὶ δ’ αἳ καὶ οἰκήτορας μετέβαλον ἁλισκόμεναι), οὔτε φυγαὶ τοσαίδε ἀνθρώπων καὶ φόνος, ὁ μὲν κατ’ αὐτὸν τὸν πόλεμον, ὁ δὲ διὰ τὸ στασιάζειν.

Euripides, Bacchae 1350: αἰαῖ, δέδοκται, πρέσβυ, τλήμονες φυγαί.

Callimachus, Hymn to Athena 39: δᾶμον ἑτοιμάζοντα φυγᾶι τεὸν ἱρὸν ἄγαλμα

All forms of φυγή (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.