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ἥπατος (hepatos)

ἥπατος is an Ancient Greek form of ἧπαρ, meaning “liver”.

Found 82 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Ἐπιγράμματα 24.30: κεῖσθαι φαρμακόεντα διʼ ἥπατος ἰὸν ἔχουσα,

Euripides, Medea 379: ἢ θηκτὸν ὤσω φάσγανον δι’ ἥπάτος,

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 3.13·2: … ῇ τοῦ φαρμάκου, τί θαυμαστόν ἐστι διττὴν ὑπηρεσίαν τε καὶ χρείαν εἶναι ταῖς φλεψὶ ταῖς ἐν τῷ μέσῳ τεταγμέναις ἥπατός τε καὶ τῶν κατὰ τὴν κοιλίαν, ὥσθʼ, ὁπότε μὲν ἐν τούτοις ἄφθονος εἴη περιεχομένη τροφή, διὰ τῶν εἰρημένων εἰς …

All forms of ἧπαρ (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.