ἄκοντες (akontes)

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

Found 103 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.40.1: ‘οὔκουν δεῖ προθεῖναι ἐλπίδα οὔτε λόγῳ πιστὴν οὔτε χρήμασιν ὠνητήν, ὡς ξυγγνώμην ἁμαρτεῖν ἀνθρωπίνως λήψονται. ἄκοντες μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἔβλαψαν, εἰδότες δὲ ἐπεβούλευσαν· ξύγγνωμον δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ ἀκούσιον.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 49.7.3: … ποντο, τὸ στράτευμα πᾶν ἐς ἀθυμίαν ὀλοφυρόμενοι καθίστασαν. κἂν πασσυδὶ διεφθάρησαν, εἰ μήπερ οἱ πολέμιοι καὶ ἄκοντές σφων

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.