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ἀπειλήν (apeilen)

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

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.40.3: … υσὶν ἐρύματος μείζονος προσπεριβαλλομένου, βοηθῆσαι σφίσιν. ὁ δὲ Ἀστύοχος καίπερ οὐ διανοούμενος διὰ τὴν τότε ἀπειλήν, ὡς ἑώρα καὶ τοὺς ξυμμάχους προθύμους ὄντας, ὥρμητο ἐς τὸ βοηθεῖν.

Plutarch, De primo frigido 14: … βεβηκὼς ἀπειλοίη μὴ τυχὼν τὸ πῦρ, εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ ἀφήσειν· ἐτύγχανε μὲν γὰρ ὧν ἐδεῖτο, τυχὼν δʼ ἐκολάζετο διὰ τὴν ἀπειλὴν ὡς παρὰ νόμον καὶ κατὰ τῆς φύσεως γενομένην. καὶ τοῦτο δὴ· τὸ πρόχειρον ἅπασι πῦρ ὕδατι μιγνύναι τὸ παροιμιαζ …

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.