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ἐλαφρόν (elaphron)

ἐλαφρόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλαφρός, meaning “light”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 2.92: ἀλλʼ ἦς οὐδὲν ἐλαφρόν· ὁ δὲ χρόνος ἄνυτο φεύγων.

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 2.1: … ὶ συγγενὲς ἐξηρτυμένον ἔχουσι καὶ παρεσκευασμένον, οὕτως ἤσκησε τὸ σῶμα πρὸς ἅπασαν ἰδέαν μάχης ὥστε καὶ θεῖν ἐλαφρὸν εἶναι καὶ βάρος ἔχειν ἐν λαβαῖς καὶ ἐν διαπάλαις πολέμου δυσεκβίαστον. οἱ γοῦν ἔριν ἔχοντες εὐψυχίας ἀεὶ καὶ …

Pindar, Nemean 8.46: σεῦ δὲ πάτρᾳ Χαριάδαις τʼ Ἐλαφρὸν

All forms of ἐλαφρός (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.