ἕκτην (hekten)

ἕκτην is an Ancient Greek form of ἕκτος, meaning “sixth”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.33.1: κἀκεῖνος λαβὼν τάς τε τῶν Κορινθίων πέντε καὶ ἕκτην Μεγαρίδα καὶ μίαν Ἑρμιονίδα καὶ ἃς αὐτὸς Λακωνικὰς ἔχων ἦλθεν, ἔπλει ἐπὶ τῆς Μιλήτου πρὸς τὴν ναυαρχίαν, πολλὰ ἀπειλήσας τοῖς Χίοις ἦ μὴν μὴ ἐπιβοηθήσειν, ἤν τι δέωνται.

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi meretricii 12.3: … νεανίου καθευδούσῃ ἐμοῦ ἀποστάσῃ; Λυσία, τὸ μὲν ὅλον ἑταίρα ἐστί. πῶς δ’ οὖν κατέλαβες αὐτοὺς συγκαθεύδοντας; Ἕκτην σχεδὸν ταύτην ἡμέραν, νὴ Δί', ἕκτην γε, δευτέρᾳ ἱσταμένου· τὸ τήμερον δὲ ἑβδόμη ἐστίν. ὁ πατὴρ εἰδὼς ὡς πάλαι …

All forms of ἕκτος (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.