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ἀθρόων (athroon)

ἀθρόων is an Ancient Greek form of ἀθρόος, meaning “crowded together, all at once”. It is the genitive plural feminine adjective.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.2.43: … ′ γ′. Περὶ ἑκουσίου α′. Ἐπιτομὴ τῆς Πλάτωνος Πολιτείας α′ β′. Περὶ ἑτεροφωνίας ζῴων τῶν ὁμογενῶν α′. Περὶ τῶν ἀθρόων φαινομένων α′. Περὶ δακέτων καὶ βλητικῶν α′. Περὶ τῶν ζῴων ὅσα λέγεται φθονεῖν α′. Περὶ τῶν ἐν ξηρῷ διαμενόντ …

Xenophon, Anabasis 4.8.11: … ι ὅ τι ἂν βούλωνται· ἐὰν δὲ ἐπʼ ὀλίγων τεταγμένοι ὦμεν, οὐδὲν ἂν εἴη θαυμαστὸν εἰ διακοπείη ἡμῶν ἡ φάλαγξ ὑπὸ ἁθρόων καὶ βελῶν καὶ ἀνθρώπων πολλῶν ἐμπεσόντων· εἰ δέ πῃ τοῦτο ἔσται, τῇ ὅλῃ φάλαγγι κακὸν ἔσται.

All forms of ἀθρόος (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.