ἴλην (ilen)

ἴλην is an Ancient Greek form of ἴλη, meaning “troop, squadron”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 16.7: ἐκάθευδον δὲ ὁμοῦ κατʼ ἴλην καὶ ἀγέλην ἐπὶ στιβάδων, ἃς αὑτοῖς συνεφόρουν, τοῦ παρὰ τὸν Εὐρώταν πεφυκότος καλάμου τὰ ἄκρα ταῖς χερσὶν ἄνε …

All forms of ἴλη (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.