ἁρπαγῆς (harpages)

ἁρπαγῆς is an Ancient Greek form of ἁρπαγή, meaning “seizure, plunder”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of ἁρπαγεύς, “robber”.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 15.2: … ῖκα τὸν Ταλάσιον. Σέξτιος δὲ Σύλλας ὁ Καρχηδόνιος, οὔτε μουσῶν οὔτε χαρίτων ἐπιδεὴς ἀνήρ, ἔλεγεν ἡμῖν ὅτι τῆς ἁρπαγῆς σύνθημα τὴν φωνὴν ἔδωκε ταύτην ὁ Ῥωμύλος·

Appianus of Alexandria, Mithridatic Wars 1.4: … ἀφεθείσης τῷ Προυσίᾳ Ἀ̔νδρόνικος γὰρ ἐπιπεμφθεὶς ἐς ἀντιλογίαν ὑπὸ Ἀττάλου τὴν ζημίαν ἀπέφαινεν ἐλάττονα τῆς ἁρπαγῆς̓, τὸν δὲ Νικομήδη λόγου καὶ σπουδῆς ἄξιον ὁρῶν, ἠπόρητο, καὶ οὔτε κτείνειν αὐτὸν ὑφίστατο οὔτε αὐτὸς ἐς Βιθυνί …

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.