ἀλκήν (alken)

ἀλκήν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀλκή, meaning “strength, prowess, courage”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 168 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.158: Νηλῆος θείοιο· Ποσειδάων δέ οἱ ἀλκὴν

Isaeus, On the Estate of Philoctemon 20: … τερον ὁ μὲν Δίων ζημίαν εἰργασμένος καὶ δείσας ὑπὲρ αὑτοῦ ὑπεχώρησεν εἰς Σικυῶνα· τὴν δʼ ἄνθρωπον ταύτην, τὴν Ἀλκήν, καθίστησιν Εὐκτήμων ἐπιμελεῖσθαι τὴν ἐν Κεραμεικῷ συνοικίας, τῆς παρὰ τὴν πυλίδα, οὗ ὁ οἶνος ὤνιος.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.21.3: … τὰ ἐντὸς γινόμενα τοῦ κύκλου πάντα αἱροῦσι τά τε ἄλλα καὶ τὰς ἄλκας· εἰ δὲ μὴ τύχοι ταύτῃ φωλεύουσα, ἑτέρα γε ἄλκην ἑλεῖν ἐστιν οὐδεμία μηχανή.

All forms of ἀλκή (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.