Ἐρυθράν (Erythran)

Ἐρυθράν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐρυθρός, meaning “red”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of Ἐρυθραί, “Erythrai — a city of the Ionians (Steph”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 53 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.7.35: … αὐτὸν καὶ εἰς Αἴγυπτον πρὸς τοὺς ἱερέας γεωμετρίαν μαθησόμενον καὶ πρὸς Χαλδαίους εἰς τὴν Περσίδα καὶ εἰς τὴν Ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν γενέσθαι. τοῖς τε Γυμνοσοφισταῖς φασί τινες συμμῖξαι αὐτὸν ἐν Ἰνδίᾳ καὶ εἰς Αἰθιοπίαν ἐλθεῖν. τρίτον …

Plutarch, Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon 3.2: καὶ τὰ μὲν βόρεια μέχρι Φάσιδος, τὰ δʼ ἑῷα μέχρι Μηδίας, τὰ δὲ πρὸς νότον καὶ τήν ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν οἰκειωσάμενος διὰ τῶν Ἀραβικῶν βασιλέων, συντρίψας δὲ τὰς δυνάμεις τῶν βασιλέων, ἀπολειφθεὶς δὲ μόνο …

Strabo, Geography 1.3.13: … κατὰ τὰς στήλας ἐκρύσει μεθισταμένη ἐκεῖσε ἡ καθʼ ἡμᾶς θάλαττα συμμεθίστα καὶ τὴν σύρρουν αὐτῇ γενομένην τὴν Ἐρυθράν, καὶ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ διέμεινεν ἐπιφανείᾳ, μὴ ταπεινουμένη· καὶ γὰρ κατʼ αὐτὸν Ἐρατοσθένη τὴν ἐκτὸς θάλατταν ἅπασαν …

All forms of ἐρυθρός (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.