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Ἄθω (Atho)

Ἄθω is an Ancient Greek form of Ἄθως, meaning “Athos — the lofty mountain at the extremity of the long peninsula, running out into the sea from…”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.601: ἦρι δὲ νισσομένοισιν Ἄθω ἀνέτελλε κολώνη

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.82.1: τοῦ δ’ ἐπιγιγνομένου θέρους Διῆς τε οἱ ἐν Ἄθῳ ἀπέστησαν Ἀθηναίων πρὸς Χαλκιδέας, καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοι τὰ ἐν Ἀχαΐᾳ οὐκ ἐπιτηδείως πρότερον ἔχοντα καθίσταντο.

All forms of Ἄθως (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.