ἀπορῶν (aporon)

ἀπορῶν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπορέω, meaning “be at a loss”.

It can also be a form of ἄπορος, “impassable, without resource”. It is the genitive plural neuter adjective.

Found 151 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.102.6: ὁ δ’ ἀπορῶν, ὥς φασι, μόλις κατενόησε τὴν πρόσχωσιν ταύτην τοῦ Ἀχελῴου, καὶ ἐδόκει αὐτῷ ἱκανὴ ἂν κεχῶσθαι δίαιτα τῷ σώματ …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.5.175: … ς καὶ γυναικός. Περὶ τοῦ τὸν σοφὸν σοφιστεύειν. Περὶ χρειῶν. Διατριβῶν δύο. Περὶ ἡδονῆς. Περὶ ἰδίων. Περὶ τῶν ἀπόρων. Περὶ διαλεκτικῆς. Περὶ τρόπων. Περὶ κατηγορημάτων. Ταῦτα αὐτῷ τὰ βιβλία.

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 3.8·2: … ρχὴ πολλῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ χωρῶν κυριεύσασα, ἢ ὅτι μεγάλα καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀνθρωπίνην ἐφαντάσθη φύσιν ὀγκωθεῖσα τῇ εὐτυχίᾳ. Ἀπορῶν δὲ ὁ προφήτης περὶ τῶν ὁρωμένων, ὁρᾷ τράγον ἀπὸ λιβὸς ἐρχόμενον ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν, καὶ αὐτῷ κέρας ἦν ἕν θεωρη …

All forms of ἀπορέω (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.