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ἐγκωμίων (enkomion)

ἐγκωμίων is an Ancient Greek form of ἐγκώμιος, meaning “of praise; encomium”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Marcus Cato 14.2: … ς ἀλλήλους φόβῳ πληγῆς καί σιδήρου πολεμίων αὑτοὺς διέφθειρον. ὁ δὲ Κάτων ἀεὶ μέν τις ἦν, ὡς ἔοικε, τῶν ἰδίων ἐγκωμίων ἀφειδὴς καί τὴν ἄντικρυς μεγαλαυχίαν ὡς ἐπακολούθημα τῆς μεγαλουργίας οὐκ ἔφευγε, πλεῖστον δὲ ταῖς πράξεσι τα …

All forms of ἐγκώμιος (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.