ἡσυχίαν (hesychian)

ἡσυχίαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἡσυχία, meaning “quiet, rest, peace”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 587 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70.8: καὶ ταῦτα μετὰ πόνων πάντα καὶ κινδύνων δι’ ὅλου τοῦ αἰῶνος μοχθοῦσι, καὶ ἀπολαύουσιν ἐλάχιστα τῶν ὑπαρχόντων διὰ τὸ αἰεὶ κτᾶσθαι καὶ μήτε ἑορτὴν ἄλλο τι ἡγεῖσθαι ἢ τὸ τὰ δέοντα πρᾶξαι ξυμφοράν τε οὐχ ἧσσον ἡσυχίαν ἀπράγμονα ἢ ἀσχολίαν ἐπίπονον·

Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to Endurance or To the Newly Baptized (Fragment 44) 1: Ἡσυχίαν μὲν λόγοις ἐπιτήδευε, ἡσυχίαν δὲ ἔργοις, ὡσαύτως δὲ ἐν γλώττῃ καὶ βαδίσματι· σφοδρότητα δὲ ἀπόφευγε προπετῆ· …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 200: … ν, ἵνα δῷ Κύριος ἐμοὶ μὲν ἀπαλλαγὴν τοῦ φορτικοῦ τούτου σώματος, ταῖς δὲ ἐκκλησίαις αὐτοῦ τὴν εἰρήνην, σοὶ δὲ ἡσυχιάν καὶ ἄδειαν τοῦ, ἐπειδὰν διαθῇ τὰ κατὰ τὴν Λυκαονίαν ἀποστολικῶς, ὡς ἐνήρξω, ἐπισκέπτεσθαι καὶ τὰ ὧδε, κἄν τε …

All forms of ἡσυχία (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.