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ἀνίας (anias)

ἀνίας is an Ancient Greek form of ἀνιάω, meaning “grieve, distress”.

It can also be a form of ἀνία, “grief, distress”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.258: ἀνδρομέην προέηκε κακὸν τέρας, ὥς κεν ἀνίας

Sophocles, Antigone 550: τί ταῦτʼ ἀνιᾷς μʼ, οὐδὲν ὠφελουμένη;

All forms of ἀνιάω (conjugation 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.