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Ἀδρίαν (Adrian)

Ἀδρίαν is an Ancient Greek form of Ἀδρίας, meaning “Adrias — an historical writer, whose time is not known”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 16.1: … ν Ἄλπεων ἐπʼ ἀμφοτέρας καθήκουσαν τὰς θαλάσσας, ὡς καὶ τοὔνομα μαρτυρεῖ τῷ λόγῳ, τὴν μὲν γὰρ βόρειον θάλατταν Ἀδρίαν καλοῦσιν ἀπὸ Τυρρηνικῆς πόλεως Ἀδρίας, τὴν δὲ πρὸς νότον κεκλιμένην ἄντικρυς Τυρρηνικὸν πέλαγος.

All forms of Ἀδρίας (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.