Socratos Sign in

ἑῴας (heoas)

ἑῴας is an Ancient Greek form of ἑῷος, meaning “of the dawn, eastern”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 7.16.2: … ν Κασπίαν τε καὶ Ὑρκανίαν καλουμένην ποίᾳ τινὶ ξυμβάλλει θαλάσσῃ, πότερα τῇ τοῦ πόντου τοῦ Εὐξείνου ἢ ἀπὸ τῆς ἑῴας τῆς κατʼ Ἰνδοὺς ἐκπεριερχομένη ἡ μεγάλη θάλασσα ἀναχεῖται εἰς κόλπον τὸν Ὑρκάνιον, καθάπερ οὖν καὶ τὸν Περσικ …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume III 9.690.1: Θευδόσιος τόδε τεῖχος ἄναξ, καὶ ὕπαρχος Ἑῴας

All forms of ἑῷος (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.