ἐπιχώρια (epichoria)

ἐπιχώρια is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιχώριος, meaning “of the country, native”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.20.1: τὰ μὲν οὖν παλαιὰ τοιαῦτα ηὗρον, χαλεπὰ ὄντα παντὶ ἑξῆς τεκμηρίῳ πιστεῦσαι. οἱ γὰρ ἄνθρωποι τὰς ἀκοὰς τῶν προγεγενημένων, καὶ ἢν ἐπιχώρια σφίσιν ᾖ, ὁμοίως ἀβασανίστως παρ’ ἀλλήλων δέχονται.

Euripides, Helen 561: Ἑλληνὶς εἶ τις ἢ ἐπιχωρία γυνή;

Strabo, Geography 2.3.7: … άντων τινῶν κρατοῦσιν αἱ πλείους ἐν ὁποιῳοῦν κλίματι. ἔστι δέ τι καὶ παρὰ τὰ κλίματα, ὥστε τὰ μὲν φύσει ἐστὶν ἐπιχώριά τισι τὰ δʼ ἔθει καὶ ἀσκήσει. οὐ γὰρ φύσει Ἀθηναῖοι μὲν φιλόλογοι, Λακεδαιμόνιοι δʼ οὒ καὶ οἱ ἔτι ἐγγυτέρω Θηβ …

All forms of ἐπιχώριος (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.