ἑρπετά (herpeta)

ἑρπετά is an Ancient Greek form of ἑρπετόν, meaning “beast; animal which goes on all fours”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.502: αὐτῇσιν νύμφῃσι καὶ ἑρπετὰ πάντʼ ἐγένοντο.

Aristophanes, Birds 1069: ἑρπετά τε καὶ δάκετα πάνθʼ ὅσαπερ

All forms of ἑρπετόν (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.