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Ἰνδόν (Indon)

Ἰνδόν is an Ancient Greek form of Ἰνδός, meaning “Indos — an Indian”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Nicias and Crassus 2.5: ὁ μὲν γὰρ τῆς εἰρήνης ἔρως θεῖος ἦν ὡς ἀληθῶς, καὶ τὸ λῦσαι τὸν πόλεμον ἑλληνικώτατον πολίτευμα· καὶ τῆς πράξεως ἕνεκα ταύτης οὐκ ἄξιον Νικίᾳ παραβαλεῖν Κράσσον, οὐδʼ εἰ τὸ Κάσπιον φέρων πέλαγος ἢ τὸν Ἰνδὸν ὠκεανὸν τῇ Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίᾳ προσώρισεν.

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.2.28: … ου τοιοῦδε· ὦ Ἀρμένιε, ἔφη, καὶ ὑμεῖς, ὦ Χαλδαῖοι, εἴπατέ μοι, εἴ τινα ἐγὼ νῦν τῶν ἐμῶν ἀποστέλλοιμι πρὸς τὸν Ἰνδόν, συμπέμψαιτʼ ἄν μοι τῶν ὑμετέρων οἵτινες αὐτῷ τήν τε ὁδὸν ἡγοῖντο ἂν καὶ συμπράττοιεν ὥστε γενέσθαι ἡμῖν παρὰ …

All forms of Ἰνδός (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.