ἧσσον (hesson)

ἧσσον is an Ancient Greek form of ἥσσων, meaning “weaker, inferior”. It is the accusative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 497 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.8.1: καὶ οὐχ ἧσσον λῃσταὶ ἦσαν οἱ νησιῶται, Κᾶρές τε ὄντες καὶ Φοίνικες· οὗτοι γὰρ δὴ τὰς πλείστας τῶν νήσων ᾤκησαν. μαρτύριον δ …

Euripides, Electra 1078: εἰ δʼ ἥσσονʼ εἴη, συννεφοῦσαν ὄμματα,

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1382: ᾖσσον δὲ λόγχαις· ἀλλʼ ὑφίζανον κύκλοις,

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.