ἀργυροῦν (argyroun)

ἀργυροῦν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀργύρεος, meaning “of silver”.

It can also be a form of ἀργυρόω, “to cover with silver; to be silvered, silver-plated”. It is the present active participle accusative singular neuter.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Theseus 20.4: … ν ἐγχωρίοις ἀπολιπεῖν χρήματα, συντάξαντα θύειν τῇ Ἀριάδνῃ, δύο δὲ μικροὺς ἀνδριαντίσκους ἱδρύσασθαι, τὸν μὲν ἀργυροῦν, τὸν δὲ χαλκοῦν. ἐν δὲ τῇ θυσίᾳ τοῦ Γορπιαίου μηνὸς ἱσταμένου δευτέρᾳ κατακλινόμενόν τινα τῶν νεανίσκων φθέγγ …

Strabo, Geography 3.2.11: οὐ πολὺ δʼ ἄπωθεν τοῦ Καστλῶνος ἔστι καὶ τὸ ὄρος ἐξ οὗ ῥεῖν φασι τὸν Βαῖτιν, ὃ καλοῦσιν Ἀργυροῦν διὰ τὰ ἀργυρεῖα τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ. Πολύβιος δὲ καὶ τὸν Ἄναν καὶ τοῦτον ἐκ τῆς Κελτιβηρίας ῥεῖν φησι, διέχοντας ἀλλήλ …

All forms of ἀργύρεος (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.