ἑρπετῶν (herpeton)

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

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 269: πέποιθα. δεινὸν δ’ ἑρπετῶν μὲν ἀγρίων

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 5.14.1: … πολιπὼν ἐπιβουλῆς τρόπον, αἱρέσεις ξένας αὖθις ἐπιφύεσθαι κατὰ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐνήργει· ὧν οἱ μὲν ἰοβόλων δίκην ἐρπετῶν ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀσίας καὶ Φρυγίας εἷρπον, τὸν μὲν δὴ παράκλητον Μοντανόν, τὰς δ’ ἐξ αὐτοῦ γυναῖκας, Πρίσκιλλαν καὶ Μα …

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.