Ἄλπεων (Alpeon)

Ἄλπεων is an Ancient Greek form of Ἄλπεις, meaning “Alpeis — the Alps”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun or adjective.

Found 117 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 15.2: οἱ δὲ μεταξὺ Πυρρήνης ὄρους καὶ τῶν Ἄλπεων ἱδρυθέντες ἐγγὺς Σενώνων καὶ Κελτορίων κατοικεῖν χρόνον πολύν ὀψὲ δʼ οἴνου γευσάμενοι τότε πρῶτον ἐξ Ἰταλίας …

Strabo, Geography 4.6.10: … εἰς τὸν Ἴστρον. κεῖται δὲ ἡ πόλις εὐφυῶς πρὸς τὸν κατὰ τῶν Δακῶν πόλεμον· ἡ δʼ Ὄκρα τὸ ταπεινότατον μέρος τῶν Ἄλπεών ἐστι καθʼ ὃ συνάπτουσι τοῖς Κάρνοις, καὶ διʼ οὗ τὰ ἐκ τῆς Ἀκυληίας φορτία κομίζουσιν ἁρμαμάξαις εἰς τὸν καλού …

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.