Ἑλικῶνος (Helikonos)

Ἑλικῶνος is an Ancient Greek form of Ἑλικών, meaning “Helikon — the son of Acesas, of Salamis, in Cyprus, was a celebrated artist in weaving variegated…”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of ἑλικών, “thread spun from the distaff to the spindle”.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alexander 32.6: … αχαίρᾳ παρὰ τὰς μάχας. ἐπιπόρπωμα δὲ ἐφόρει τῇ μὲν ἐργασίᾳ σοβαρώτερον ἢ κατὰ τὸν ἄλλον ὁπλισμόν ἦν γὰρ ἔργον Ἑλικῶνος τοῦ παλαιοῦ, τιμὴ δὲ τῆς Ῥοδίων πόλεως, ὑφʼ ἧς ἐδόθη δῶρον· ἐχρῆτο δὲ καὶ τούτῳ πρὸς τοὺς ἀγῶνας.

Strabo, Geography 9.2.29: ἑξῆς δὲ Κορώνειαν καταλέγει καὶ Ἁλίαρτον καὶ Πλαταιὰς καὶ Γλίσσαντα. ἡ μὲν οὖν Κορώνεια ἐγγὺς τοῦ Ἑλικῶνός ἐστιν ἐφʼ ὕψους ἱδρυμένη, κατελάβοντο δʼ αὐτὴν ἐπανιόντες ἐκ τῆς Θετταλικῆς Ἄρνης οἱ Βοιωτοὶ μετὰ τὰ Τρωικά, …

All forms of Ἑλικών (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.