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ἐρωτᾷς (erotas)

ἐρωτᾷς is an Ancient Greek form of ἔρως, meaning “love”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 172 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.1.28: … τησις ἦν, ἕως οἱ Μιλήσιοι ἔπεμψαν εἰς Δελφούς· καὶ ὁ θεὸς ἔχρησεν οὕτως· ἔκγονε Μιλήτου, τρίποδος πέρι Φοῖβον ἐρωτᾷς; τίς σοφίῃ πάντων πρῶτος, τούτου τρίποδʼ αὐδῶ. διδοῦσιν οὖν Θαλῇ· ὁ δὲ ἄλλῳ καὶ ἄλλος ἄλλῳ ἕως Σόλωνος. ὁ δὲ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 17.51: πᾶσιν δʼ ἤπιος ἥδε βροτοῖς μαλακοὺς μὲν ἔρωτας

Euripides, Medea 842: τᾷ Σοφίᾳ παρέδρους πέμπειν Ἔρωτας,

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.