ἀρχαίοις (archaiois)

ἀρχαίοις is an Ancient Greek form of ἀρχαῖος, meaning “ancient, old”. It is the dative plural masculine adjective.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.12.113: … ὸ ἠρεμάζειν. φασὶ δὲ καὶ Ἄρατον πυθέσθαι αὐτοῦ πῶς τὴν Ὁμήρου ποίησιν ἀσφαλῆ κτήσαιτο, τὸν δὲ εἰπεῖν, εἰ τοῖς ἀρχαίοις ἀντιγράφοις ἐντυγχάνοι καὶ μὴ τοῖς ἤδη διωρθωμένοις. εἰκῆ τε αὐτῷ ἔκειτο τὰ ποιήματα, ἐνίοτε ἡμίβρωτα·

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 2.47.1: … ς τοῖς προτέροις, νεωτέρους οὓς ἐκάλεσαν πατρικίους· ἐξ ὧν ἑκατὸν ἄνδρας, οὓς αἱ φρᾶτραι προεχειρίσαντο, τοῖς ἄρχαίοις βουλευταῖς προσέγραψαν.

All forms of ἀρχαῖος (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.