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Ἐκβατάνοις (Ekbatanois)

Ἐκβατάνοις is an Ancient Greek form of Ἐκβάτανα, meaning “Ekbatana — a celebrated ancient city of Media”. It is the dative plural neuter noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Agesilaus 15.1: … ἐγνώκει πρόσω χωρεῖν, καὶ τὸν πόλεμον διάρας ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς θαλάττης, περὶ τὸν σώματος βασιλεῖ καὶ τῆς ἐν Ἐκβατάνοις καὶ Σούσοις εὐδαιμονίας διαμάχεσθαι, καὶ περισπάσαι πρῶτον αὐτοῦ τὴν σχολήν, ὡς μὴ καθέζοιτο τοὺς πολέμους βρ …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) preface·4: … πὶ τῆ κρήνῃ ἐλούοντο· 173, Β: Αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τῇ κοίτῃ κατέδαρθεν, ut p. 170, D, 651 in omnibus: Παρὰ τοῖς ἐν Μηδίᾳ ἐκβατάνοις ἐδόκει τὸ τέλος αὐτὸν καταλήψεσθαι, et Michael Glycas dicit Annal. p. 147, D: Παρὰ τῇ ἄμμῳ κρύπτει αὐτόν. et …

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.