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Ἅλυν (Halyn)

Ἅλυν is an Ancient Greek form of Ἅλυς, meaning “Halys — the Halys, the chief river of Asia Minor”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.953: ἱέμενον, ποταμόν τʼ ἐπὶ τοῖς Ἅλυν· οὐδὲ μὲν ἀνδρῶν

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 13.1: … ἀπραγμόνως καὶ ζῆν ἐν εἰρήνῃ βασιλεύοντα τῶν οἰκείων· ὁ δὲ τὸ μὴ παρέχειν ἑτέροις κακὰ μηδὲ ἔχειν ὑφʼ ἑτέρων ἄλυν τινὰ ναυτιώδη νομίζων, ὥσπερ ὁ Ἀχιλλεὺς οὐκ ἔφερε τὴν σχολήν, ἀλλὰ φθινύθεσκε φίλον κῆρ αὖθι μένων, ποθέεσκε …

All forms of Ἅλυς (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.