ἐχθροῖς (echthrois)

ἐχθροῖς is an Ancient Greek form of ἐχθρός, meaning “hateful; enemy”. It is the dative plural masculine adjective.

Found 324 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.62.3: … προσέτι διασώσαντες παρέδοσαν ὑμῖν αὐτά (αἴσχιον δὲ ἔχοντας ἀφαιρεθῆναι ἢ κτωμένους ἀτυχῆσαι), ἰέναι δὲ τοῖς ἐχθροῖς ὁμόσε μὴ φρονήματι μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ καταφρονήματι.

Aesop, Fables 204b: … ξιν τὴν ἀφαίρεσιν ποιῶν τοῦ θηράματος. δὲ λαβοῦσα „φωνὴ μὲν, ὦ κόραξ,“ εἶπεν „προσῆν, ὁ δὲ νοῦς ἐπιλέλοιπεν.“ Ἐχθροῖς πειθαρχῶν ὑποστήσῃ τὴν βλάβην.

All forms of ἐχθρός (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.