ὀλίγοις (oligois)

ὀλίγοις is an Ancient Greek form of ὀλίγος, meaning “few, little, small”. It is the dative plural masculine adjective.

Found 376 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.33.2: … ροσέτι φέρουσα ἐς μὲν τοὺς πολλοὺς ἀρετήν, οἷς δὲ ἐπαμυνεῖτε χάριν, ὑμῖν δ’ αὐτοῖς ἰσχύν· ἃ ἐν τῷ παντὶ χρόνῳ ὀλίγοις δὴ ἅμα πάντα ξυνέβη, καὶ ὀλίγοι ξυμμαχίας δεόμενοι οἷς ἐπικαλοῦνται ἀσφάλειαν καὶ κόσμον οὐχ ἧσσον διδόντες ἢ …

Procopius, De Bellis 4.17.30: δείσας μὴ ξυμφρονήσαντες οἱ πολέμιοι ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς ἴωσιν, αὐτὸς ξὺν ὀλιγοις τισὶν ἐς τοῦ χαρακώματος τὴν εἴσοδον ἔστη, πολλά τε ὀλοφυρόμενος καὶ τοὺς οὐδὲν ἐπαΐοντας ἐς εὐκοσμίαν παρακαλῶν.

All forms of ὀλίγος (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.