Ἴλιον (Ilion)

Ἴλιον is an Ancient Greek form of Ἴλιος, meaning “Ilium, Troy”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 236 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.12.3: … πρότερον δὲ Καδμηίδα γῆν καλουμένην ᾤκισαν (ἦν δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ ἀποδασμὸς πρότερον ἐν τῇ γῇ ταύτῃ, ἀφ’ ὧν καὶ ἐς Ἴλιον ἐστράτευσαν), Δωριῆς τε ὀγδοηκοστῷ ἔτει ξὺν Ἡρακλείδαις Πελοπόννησον ἔσχον.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1414: πόντου δʼ ἀνάκτωρ Ἴλιόν τʼ ἐπισκοπεῖ

Proclus, Chrestomathy 1: … ι· χειμῶνα δὲ αὐτοῖς ἐφίστησιν Ἥρα· καὶ προσενεχθεὶς Σιδῶνι ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος, αἴρει τὴν πόλιν· καὶ ἀποπλεύσας εἰς Ἴ̈λιον, γάμους τῆς Ἑλένης ἐπετέλεσεν· ἐν τούτῳ δὲ Κάστωρ μετὰ Πολυδεύκους. τὰς Ἴ̈δα καὶ Λϋγέως βοῦς ὑ̈φαιρούμενοι ἐφ …

All forms of Ἴλιος (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.