ἐραστῶν (eraston)

ἐραστῶν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐραστής, meaning “lover”.

It can also be a form of ἐραστός, “beloved, lovely”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 25.1: οἱ μέν γε νεώτεροι τριάκοντα ἐτῶν τὸ παράπαν οὐ κατέβαινον εἰς ἀγοράν, ἀλλὰ διὰ τῶν συγγενῶν καὶ τῶν ἐραστῶν ἐποιοῦντο τᾶς ἀναγκαίας οἰκονομίας. τοῖς δὲ πρεσβυτέροις αἰσχρὸν ἦν συνεχῶς ὁρᾶσθαι περὶ ταῦτα διατρίβουσιν, …

All forms of ἐραστής (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.