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ἐκλογήν (eklogen)

ἐκλογήν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐκλογή, meaning “selection, choice”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 69 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Amatoriae Narrationes 1: … ὰρ ὑπὸ τῶν τῆς παρθένου οἰκετῶν, ὡς πρὸς αὐτὸν μᾶλλον ἐκείνη ῥέποι, ἠξίου ἐπʼ αὐτῇ ποιεῖσθαι τῇ γαμουμένῃ τὴν ἐκλογήν. ὡς δὲ τῆς παιδὸς ὁ Θεοφάνης ἐπυνθάνετο ἐν ὄψει πάντων, ἡ δὲ τὸν Καλλισθένην προὔκρινεν, εὐθὺς μὲν ὁ Στράτων …

Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos 26: … ὴ στοχαζομένους μηδʼ ἐφιεμένους τοῦ τυχεῖν ἐκείνων τὸ τέλος ἔχειν, ἀλλʼ οὗ δεῖ ἐκεῖνα ἀναφέρεσθαι, τὴν τούτων ἐκλογὴν καὶ μὴ ταῦτα· τέλος μὲν γὰρ τὸ ἐκλέγεσθαι καὶ λαμβάνειν ἐκεῖνα φρονίμως· ἐκεῖνα δʼ αὐτὰ καὶ τὸ τυγχάνειν αὐτῶ …

All forms of ἐκλογή (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.