ἐρήμοις (eremois)

ἐρήμοις is an Ancient Greek form of ἐρῆμος, meaning “deserted, empty; desert”. It is the dative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of ἐρημόω, “lay waste”. It is the 2nd person singular present active optative.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Numa 4.1: … ἄστει διατριβὰς ἀγραυλεῖν τὰ πολλὰ καὶ πλανᾶσθαι μόνος ἤθελεν, ἐν ἄλσεσι θεῶν καὶ λειμῶσιν ἱεροῖς καὶ τόποις ἐρήμοις ποιούμενος τὴν δίαιταν. ὅθεν οὐχ ἥκιστα τὴν ἀρχὴν ὁ περὶ τῆς θεᾶς ἔλαβε λόγος, ὡς ἄρα Νομᾶς ἐκεῖνος οὐκ ἀδημο …

Plutarch, Alexander 39.5: … τοὺς φίλους καὶ ἐνδόξους ἄγε νῦν δʼ ἰσοβασιλέας πάντας ποιεῖς καὶ πολυφιλίας παρασκευάζεις αὐτοῖς, ἑαυτὸν δὲ ἐρημοῖς. πολλάκις δὲ τοιαῦτα τῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος γραφούσης ἐφύλαττεν ἀπόρρητα τὰ γράμματα, πλὴν ἅπαξ Ἡφαιστίωνος, ὥσπερ εἰ …

All forms of ἐρῆμος (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.