ἀχθῇ (achthe)

ἀχθῇ is an Ancient Greek form of ἄχθος, meaning “burden”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 940: ἡμῖν δέ γʼ οἵδε· στειχέτω δʼ ἄχθη νεκρῶν.

Plato, Sophist 218: … έον εἶναι, Θεαίτητε· πρὸς δὲ σὲ ἤδη τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο, ὡς ἔοικε, γίγνοιτο ἂν ὁ λόγος. ἂν δʼ ἄρα τι τῷ μήκει πονῶν ἄχθῃ, μὴ ἐμὲ αἰτιᾶσθαι τούτων, ἀλλὰ τούσδε τοὺς σοὺς ἑταίρους. ἀλλʼ οἶμαι μὲν δὴ νῦν οὕτως οὐκ ἀπερεῖν· ἂν δʼ ἄρα …

Plato, Laws 9.866: … τῃ πρὸς τὴν χώραν, σκηνησάμενος ἐν θαλάττῃ τέγγων τοὺς πόδας πλοῦν ἐπιφυλαττέτω, κατὰ γῆν δὲ ἂν βίᾳ ὑπό τινων ἀχθῇ, ἡ πρώτη προστυχοῦσα ἀρχὴ τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει λύσασα, εἰς τὴν ὑπερορίαν ἐκπεμπέτω ἄσυλον. ἐὰν δʼ ἄρα τις αὐτόχειρ …

All forms of ἄχθος (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.