ἀνατολάς (anatolas)

ἀνατολάς is an Ancient Greek form of ἀνατολή, meaning “rising (of the sun), east”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 132 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.48: … δὲ μὴ δοκοίη βίᾳ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ δίκῃ τὴν Σαλαμῖνα κεκτῆσθαι, ἀνασκάψας τινὰς τάφους ἔδειξε τοὺς νεκροὺς πρὸς ἀνατολὰς ἐστραμμένους, ὡς ἦν ἔθος θάπτειν Ἀθηναίοις· ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὺς τοὺς τάφους πρὸς ἕω βλέποντας καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν δήμων τ …

Plutarch, Romulus 12.5: … ρας, καθʼ ἣν ὁ ἥλιος ἐξέλιπε παντελῶς, τὴν δʼ ἐμφανῆ γέννησιν ἐν μηνὶ Θωὺθ ἡμέρᾳ πρώτῃ μετʼ εἰκάδα περὶ ἡλίου ἀνατολάς·

All forms of ἀνατολή (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.