ἀετόν (aeton)

ἀετόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀετός, meaning “eagle”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 67 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Numa 8.5: καὶ γάρ ἐκεῖνος ἀετόν τε δοκεῖ πραῦναι, φωναῖς τισιν ἐπιστήσας καὶ καταγαγὼν ὑπεριπτάμενον, τόν τε μηρὸν ὑποφῆναι χρυσοῦν Ὀλυμπίασι …

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 31.3: … τῶν Ἀργείων ἡ τοῦ Λυκείου προφῆτις Ἀπόλλωνος ἐξέδραμε βοῶσα νεκρῶν ὁρᾶν καὶ φόνου κατάπλεω τὴν πόλιν, τὸν δ’ ἀετὸν ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα χωροῦντα, εἶτα φροῦδον εἶναι.

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 37.5: τῶν δὲ στρατιωτῶν Ἀετὸν αὐτὸν προσαγορευόντων τί γάρ εἶπεν οὐ μέλλω, τοῖς ὑμετέροις ὅπλοις ὥσπερ ὠκυπτέροις αἰρόμενος;

All forms of ἀετός (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.