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ἀπλανῶν (aplanon)

ἀπλανῶν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπλανής, meaning “not wandering, steady, fixed”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun or adjective.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.132: … φασιν εἰς δύο μέρη. μιᾷ γὰρ σκέψει ἐπικοινωνεῖν αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν μαθημάτων, καθʼ ἣν ζητοῦσι περί τε τῶν ἀπλανῶν καὶ τῶν πλανωμένων, οἷον εἰ ὁ ἥλιός ἐστι τηλικοῦτος ἡλίκος φαίνεται, καὶ ὁμοίως εἰ ἡ σελήνη, καὶ περὶ δινήσεω …

Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 7: ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ ὁπλιτικῷ τετάχθω τὸ συμμαχικόν, οἵ τε ἀπὸ τῆς σμικρᾶς Ἀρμενίας καὶ Τραπεζουντίων, οἱ ὁπλῖται καὶ οἱ Κόλχοι καὶ Ῥιζιανοὶ οἱ λογχοφόροι. ἐπιτετάχθων δὲ αὐτοῖς οἱ Ἀπλανοὶ πεζοί. παντὸς δὲ τοῦ συμμαχικοῦ ἡγεμὼν ἔστω Σεκουνδῖνος, ὅσπερ τῶν Ἀπλανῶν ἡγεῖται.

All forms of ἀπλανής (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.