Ἕλλησιν (Hellesin)

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

Found 551 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.1.2: κίνησις γὰρ αὕτη μεγίστη δὴ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἐγένετο καὶ μέρει τινὶ τῶν βαρβάρων, ὡς δὲ εἰπεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀνθρώπων.

Euripides, Andromache 646: καὶ τοὺς φρονεῖν δοκοῦντας Ἕλλησίν ποτε;

Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus 6.3: … ι τριάκοντα καὶ διακοσίοις οὔτε ἀνὴρ ἐτόλμησε γυναικὸς οὔτε γυνὴ κοινωνίαν ἀνδρὸς ἐγκαταλιπεῖν, ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ἐν Ἓλλησιν οἱ σφόδρα περιττοὶ τὸν πρῶτον ἔχουσιν εἰπεῖν πατροκτόνον ἢ μητροφόνον, οὕτω Ῥωμαῖοι πάντες ἴσασιν ὅτι Καρβίλι …

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.