Ἀθήναις (Athenais)

Ἀθήναις is an Ancient Greek form of Ἀθῆναι, meaning “Athens”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 131 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.8.1: … οι γὰρ πάντες ὀξύτερον ἀντιλαμβάνονται, τότε δὲ καὶ νεότης πολλὴ μὲν οὖσα ἐν τῇ Πελοποννήσῳ, πολλὴ δ’ ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναις οὐκ ἀκουσίως ὑπὸ ἀπειρίας ἥπτετο τοῦ πολέμου, ἥ τε ἄλλη Ἑλλὰς ἅπασα μετέωρος ἦν ξυνιουσῶν τῶν πρώτων πόλεων.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.5.79: … ρῆσαι τὸν Πτολεμαῖον· τὸν δʼ ἀποτρέπειν φάσκοντα, ἂν ἄλλῳ δῷς, σὺ οὐχ ἕξεις. ὁπηνίκα δʼ ἐσυκοφαντεῖτο ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναισ—μανθάνω γὰρ καὶ τοῦτο—Μένανδρος ὁ κωμικὸς παρʼ ὀλίγον ἦλθε κριθῆναι διʼ οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ ὅτι φίλος ἦν αὐτῷ· ἀλλʼ …

Strabo, Geography 14.1.34: ἐκ δʼ Ἐρυθρῶν Σίβυλλά ἐστιν, ἔνθους καὶ μαντικὴ γυνὴ τῶν ἀρχαίων τις· κατʼ Ἀλέξανδρον δὲ ἄλλη ἦν τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον μαντική, καλουμένη Ἀθηναΐς, ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως· καὶ καθʼ ἡμᾶς Ἡρακλείδης Ἡροφίλειος ἰατρὸς συσχολαστὴς Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Μυός.

All forms of Ἀθῆναι (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.