φωτῶν (photon)

φωτῶν is an Ancient Greek form of φώς, meaning “man, mortal”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 94 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1: ἀρχόμενος σέο, Φοῖβε, παλαιγενέων κλέα φωτῶν

Plutarch, Antony 26.4: … εὐκολίαν ἐπιδείκνυσθαι καὶ φιλοφροσύνην ὑπήκουσε καὶ ἦλθεν. ἐντυχὼν δὲ παρασκευῇ λόγου κρείττονι μάλιστα τῶν φώτων τὸ πλῆθος ἐξεπλάγη. τοσαῦτα γὰρ λέγεται καθίεσθαι καὶ ἀναφαίνεσθαι πανταχόθεν ἅμα, καὶ τοιαύταις πρὸς ἄλληλα …

All forms of φώς (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.