ἕλκεα (helkea)

ἕλκεα is an Ancient Greek form of ἕλκος, meaning “wound”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 91 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.155: καὶ τότε μὲν μένον αὖθι διὰ κνέφας, ἕλκεά τʼ ἀνδρῶν

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 22.100: ὡς ἴδον ἕλκεα λυγρὰ περὶ στόμα τε γναθμούς τε·

Hippocrates, De ulceribus 12: … ξύλοισι συκίνοισιν ὡς ὀλίγον ὑποκαίοντα ἢ ἄνθραξιν, ὡς μὴ φρύγηται· καὶ ἐμβαλλόμενα πάντα ἄνυδρα ἔστω, καὶ τὰ ἑλκεα μὴ τεγγέσθω, ὅκη ἂν ἐπαλείφηται τοῦτο τὸ φάρμακον· χρῆσθαι δὲ τούτῳ τῷ φαρμάκῳ πρὸς τὰ πεπαλαιωμένα ἕλκεα, κα …

All forms of ἕλκος (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.