ἧτταν (hettan)

ἧτταν is an Ancient Greek form of ἧσσα, meaning “defeat”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 126 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.10.115: … Νυμφῶν ἱερὸν ῥαγῆναι φωνὴν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, Ἐπιμενίδη, μὴ Νυμφῶν, ἀλλὰ Διός· Κρησί τε προειπεῖν τὴν Λακεδαιμονίων ἧτταν ὑπʼ Ἀρκάδων, καθάπερ προείρηται· καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐλήφθησαν πρὸς Ὀρχομενῷ. Γηρᾶσαί τʼ ἐν τοσαύταις ἡμέραις αὐτὸν ὅσ …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 4.20: … ρθρον · καὶ πολλοὺς μὲν μαχόμενος ἀπέκτεινε, τοὺς δὲ λοιποὺς διώκων, ὡς ὑπὲρ τρισχιλίους πεσεῖν. καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἥτταν τῶν ἐναντίων ἐπανελθὼν ὁ Ἰούδας ἐσκύλευσε τὸ τούτων στρατόπεδον, καὶ λείαν πολλὴν πλοῦτόν τε λαβὼν ἄφθονον εἰ …

All forms of ἧσσα (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.