ἰούς (ious)

ἰούς is an Ancient Greek form of ἰός, meaning “arrow; poison”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Ἰώ, “Io — Io, maiden turned into a cow”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1205: ὧς ὅγε τὴν ἤειρεν. ὁμοῦ δʼ ἀνὰ τόξα καὶ ἰοὺς

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 375: συνῆψʼ ὑπʼ αἰδοῦς, ὡς ἰοῦσʼ ἐς Πηλέως

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 248: τᾶς κερασφόρου πέφυκεν Ἰοῦς·

All forms of ἰός (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.