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ἀπειλάς (apeilas)

ἀπειλάς is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπειλή, meaning “threat”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marius 16.3: τῶν δὲ οὐ μόνον ἡ καθʼ ἡμέραν ὄψις ἀφῄρει τι τοῦ θάμβους, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς τὰς ἀπειλὰς τῶν βαρβάρων καὶ τὸν κόμπον οὐκ ἀνεκτὸν ὄντα θυμὸς αὐτοῖς παριστάμενος ἐξεθέρμαινε καὶ διέφλεγε τὰς ψυχάς, οὐ …

Plutarch, Cato the Younger 58.6: … φεύξεσθαι δὲ τὴν χαλεπότητα καί πικρίαν τοῦ Σκηπίωνος, ἤδη τότε δεινὰς καί ὑπερηφάνους ποιουμένου κατὰ πολλῶν ἀπειλάς.

All forms of ἀπειλή (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.