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ἵλεως (hileos)

ἵλεως is an Ancient Greek form of ἴλαος, meaning “gracious”. It is the nominative singular masculine adjective.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 271: δέσποτα Παλαῖμον, ἵλεως ἡμῖν γενοῦ,

Euripides, Rhesus 175: οὐ μὴν τὸν Ἰλέως παῖδά μʼ ἐξαιτῇ λαβεῖν;

Sophocles, Ajax 1009: δέξαιτʼ ἂν εὐπρόσωπος ἵλεώς τʼ ἴσως

All forms of ἴλαος (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.