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ἁρπαγάς (harpagas)

ἁρπαγάς is an Ancient Greek form of ἁρπαγή, meaning “seizure, plunder”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 84 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 280: ἦ τῆς κακίστης οἳ μετήλθεθ’ ἁρπαγὰς

Euripides, Helen 904: κτᾶσθαι κελεύει πάντας οὐκ ἐς ἁρπαγάς.

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 3.13·4: … πράγμονας, εὐαναστρόφους μέντοι καὶ πρακτικοὺς καὶ ἀκαταγωνίστους καὶ ὅλως ἐπιτευκτικούς. ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων ἅρπαγας, ληστάς, νοθευτάς, κακοπαθεῖς, αἰσχροκερδεῖς, ἀθέους, ἀστόργους, ὑβριστάς, ἐπιβουλευτικούς, κλέπτας, ἐπιόρκου …

All forms of ἁρπαγή (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.