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ἐλάττονας (elattonas)

ἐλάττονας is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλάσσων, meaning “smaller, less”. It is the accusative plural masculine comparative adjective.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 31.3: διʼ ὅπερ καὶ Ἀριστοτέλης ἐλάττονας σχεῖν φησι τιμὰς ἢ προσῆκον ἦν αὐτὸν ἔχειν ἐν Λακεδαίμονι, καίπερ ἔχοντα τὰς μεγίστας. ἱερόν τε γάρ ἐστιν αὐτ …

All forms of ἐλάσσων (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.