ἥττους (hettous)

ἥττους is an Ancient Greek form of ἥσσων, meaning “weaker, inferior”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Phocion 9.4: … ρὶ τῆς χώρας, ἀλλὰ πολεμεῖν, συνεβούλευε διὰ τῶν λόγων, ἐν οἷς εἰσι κρείττους, μὴ διὰ τῶν ὅπλων, ἐν οἷς εἰσιν ἥττους, μάχεσθαι. λέγοντα δὲ αὐτὸν οὐ προσιεμένων οὐδὲ ὑπομενόντων ἀκούειν, ἐμέ, εἶπεν, ὑμεῖς ἃ μὴ βούλομαι ποιεῖν β …

All forms of ἥσσων (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.