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ἀληθῆ (alethe)

ἀληθῆ is an Ancient Greek form of ἀληθής, meaning “true”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 1,367 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.3.1: … υσαν καὶ δύναμιν ἀκέραιον, καὶ οὐκ ἀπεδέχοντο τὸ πρῶτον τὰς κατηγορίας, μεῖζον μέρος νέμοντες τῷ μὴ βούλεσθαι ἀληθῆ εἶναι· ἐπειδὴ μέντοι καὶ πέμψαντες πρέσβεις οὐκ ἔπειθον τοὺς Μυτιληναίους τήν τε ξυνοίκισιν καὶ τὴν παρασκευὴ …

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 14: … ἐπιγραφόμενοι, καὶ αὖ Διογένους ἄλλοι τινὲς καὶ Ἀντισθένους ζηλωταὶ καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ Πυθαγόρου καὶ ἔτι πλείους. Ἀληθῆ ταῦτα· πολλοὶ γάρ εἰσι. πότερον δή, ὦ Ἑρμότιμε, τὰ αὐτὰ οὗτοι λέγουσιν ἢ διάφορα; Καὶ πάνυ διάφορα. Τὸ δέ γε …

All forms of ἀληθής (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.