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ἀκρόπολιν (akropolin)

ἀκρόπολιν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀκρόπολις, meaning “citadel, acropolis”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 272 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.126.4: χρωμένῳ δὲ τῷ Κύλωνι ἐν Δελφοῖς ἀνεῖλεν ὁ θεὸς ἐν τοῦ Διὸς τῇ μεγίστῃ ἑορτῇ καταλαβεῖν τὴν Ἀθηναίων ἀκρόπολιν.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 37.1.3: προμαθὼν οὖν καὶ τοῦτο ὁ Πομπήιος ἔς τε τὴν χώραν αὐτοῦ προενέβαλε, πρὶν ἱκανῶς τε αὐτὸν ἑτοιμάσασθαι καὶ τὴν ἐσβολὴν δυσχερεστάτην οὖσαν προκατασχεῖν, καὶ ἔφθη καὶ πρὸς τὴν πόλιν τὴν Ἀκρόπολιν ὠνομασμένην προχωρήσας,

Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.22.4: ἐς δὲ τὴν ἀκρόπολίν ἐστιν ἔσοδος μία· ἑτέραν δὲ οὐ παρέχεται, πᾶσα ἀπότομος οὖσα καὶ τεῖχος ἔχουσα ἐχυρόν. τὰ δὲ προπύλαια λίθου …

All forms of ἀκρόπολις (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.