ἄκοντας (akontas)

ἄκοντας is an Ancient Greek form of ἄκων, meaning “javelin”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.89.4: Λακεδαιμόνιοί τε ἡγούμενοι αὐτῶν διὰ τὴν σφετέραν δόξαν ἄκοντας προσάγουσι τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐς τὸν κίνδυνον, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἄν ποτε ἐνεχείρησαν ἡσσηθέντες παρὰ πολὺ αὖθις ναυμαχεῖν.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 44.41.1: … τῆς ἀρχῆς χρόνον διαγενεσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ τὰ κοινῇ συμφέροντα πρᾶξαι, ἀλλʼ ἐπειδήπερ ἑκόντες οὐ μετεμέλοντο, καὶ ἄκοντάς σφας ἐσωφρόνισεν,

All forms of ἄκων (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.