Ἄρειον (Areion)

Ἄρειον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀρείων, meaning “better, braver”. It is the accusative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 86 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.665: ὑμέων δʼ εἴ τις ἄρειον ἔπος μητίσεται ἄλλη,

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.10.110: … ρεν αὐτῶν τὴν πόλιν καὶ ἔπαυσε τὸν λοιμὸν τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον. λαβὼν πρόβατα μέλανά τε καὶ λευκὰ ἤγαγε πρὸς τὸν Ἄρειον πάγον· κἀκεῖθεν εἴασεν ἰέναι οἷ βούλοιντο, προστάξας τοῖς ἀκολούθοις ἔνθα ἂν κατακλίνοι αὐτῶν ἕκαστον, θύειν …

Plutarch, Solon 31.2: ὅς γε καὶ φόνου προσκληθεὶς εἰς Ἀρειον πάγον, ἤδη τυραννῶν, ἀπήντησε κοσμίως ἀπολογησόμενος, ὁ δὲ κατήγορος οὐχ ὑπήκουσε· καὶ νόμους αὐτὸς ἑτέρους ἔ …

All forms of ἀρείων (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.