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ἰχθύας (ichthyas)

ἰχθύας is an Ancient Greek form of ἰχθύς, meaning “fish”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.10.112: … τίλπωνος οὐ λύσας ἔπη αἰνιγματώδη; τοιγὰρ εὑρέθης Κρόνος ἔξωθε τοῦ ῥῶ κάππα τε. Τῶν δʼ ἀπʼ Εὐκλείδου ἐστὶ καὶ Ἰχθύας Μετάλλου, ἀνὴρ γενναῖος, πρὸς ὃν καὶ Διογένης ὁ κυνικὸς διάλογον πεποίηται· Κλεινόμαχός θʼ ὁ Θούριος, ὃς πρῶτ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 21.43: ἰχθύας, ἐκ καλάμων δὲ πλάνον κατέσειον ἐδωδάν.

All forms of ἰχθύς (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.