ἐπίλεκτοι (epilektoi)

ἐπίλεκτοι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπίλεκτος, meaning “picked, chosen”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Hellenica 5.3.23: ἐπεὶ μέντοι οἱ ἐπίλεκτοι οὗτοι πάντα τρόπον ζητοῦντες οὐχ ηὕρισκον σῖτον ἐν τῇ πόλει, ἐκ τούτου δὴ πέμψαντες πρὸς τὸν Ἀγησίλαον ἐδέοντ …

Arrian, Tactica 10.4: καὶ διακοσίων ἐπίλεκτοί εἰσι σημειοφόρος, οὐραγός, σαλπιγκτής, ὑπηρέτης, στρατοκήρυξ. καὶ τὸ πᾶν σύνταγμα ἐς τετράγωνον σχῆμα ταχθὲν ἐς ἑκκαίδεκα ἔχει τὸ μῆκος καὶ τὸ βάθος.

All forms of ἐπίλεκτος (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.