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Ἕκτορα (Hektora)

Ἕκτορα is an Ancient Greek form of Ἕκτωρ, meaning “Hector”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 143 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 97: πόλιν πατρῴαν τὸν θανόντα θ’ Ἕκτορα

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 11·2: … ὐδὲ πρᾶος ἡσυχίαν ἄγειν κελεύει καὶ μὴ παροξύνειν αὐτόν, οὕτως μηκέτι νῦν μʼ ἐρέθιζε, γέρον νοέω δὲ καὶ αὐτός Ἕκτορά τοι λῦσαι, Διόθεν δέ μοι ἄγγελος ἦλθε μή σε, γέρον, οὐδʼ αὐτὸν ἐνὶ κλισίῃσιν ἐάσω, καὶ ἱκέτην περ ἐόντα, Διὸς …

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 66.27: ὔμνην δʼ Ἔκτορα κʼ Ἀνδρομάχαν [θεοεικέλοις.]

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.