ἀριστερᾷ (aristera)

ἀριστερᾷ is an Ancient Greek form of ἀριστερός, meaning “left”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 356 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1266: καχλάζων ὑπόεικεν. ἔχον δʼ ἐπʼ ἀριστερὰ χειρῶν

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.81.3: καὶ μέσον μὲν ἔχοντες προσῇσαν Χάονες καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι βάρβαροι, ἐκ δεξιᾶς δ’ αὐτῶν Λευκάδιοι καὶ Ἀνακτόριοι καὶ οἱ μετὰ τούτων, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ δὲ Κνῆμος καὶ οἱ Πελοποννήσιοι καὶ Ἀμπρακιῶται· διεῖχον δὲ πολὺ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων καὶ ἔστιν ὅτε οὐδὲ ἑωρῶντο.

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 71.8: … τοῖς Θηβαίοις, οἱ μὲν ἧτταν οἱ δὲ νίκην φράζοντες, ἐκέλευε τοὺς μὲν ἐπὶ δεξιὰ τοῦ βήματος θεῖναι, τοὺς δὲ ἐπʼ ἀριστερά. τεθέντων δὲ πάντων, ἀναστὰς εἶπεν ἐὰν μὲν ἐθελήσητε τοῖς ἄρχουσι πείθεσθαι καὶ τοῖς πολεμίοις ὁμόσε χωρεῖν, …

All forms of ἀριστερός (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.