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Ἕλλησι (Hellesi)

Ἕλλησι is an Ancient Greek form of Ἕλλην, meaning “a Greek”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

Found 559 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.23.5: διότι δ’ ἔλυσαν, τὰς αἰτίας προύγραψα πρῶτον καὶ τὰς διαφοράς, τοῦ μή τινα ζητῆσαί ποτε ἐξ ὅτου τοσοῦτος πόλεμος τοῖς Ἕλλησι κατέστη.

Euripides, The Trojan Women 771: πολλοῖσι κῆρα βαρβάροις Ἕλλησί τε.

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.