ὀρθά (ortha)

ὀρθά is an Ancient Greek form of ὀρθός, meaning “straight, upright, correct”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 99 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.66.3: … γροῖς ὑμῖν μὴ ἀδικῶμεν, ὅμως φατὲ ἡμᾶς παρανομῆσαι καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀξιοῦτε μὴ ἀντιδοῦναι δίκην. οὔκ, ἤν γε οὗτοι τὰ ὀρθὰ γιγνώσκωσιν· πάντων δὲ αὐτῶν ἕνεκα κολασθήσεσθε.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.64: … ιν. τῶν δὲ κατηγορημάτων τὰ μέν ἐστι συμβάματα, οἷον τὸ διὰ πέτρας πλεῖν. · καὶ τὰ μέν ἐστι τῶν κατηγορημάτων ὀρθά, ἃ δʼ ὕπτια, ἃ δʼ οὐδέτερα. ὀρθὰ μὲν οὖν ἐστι τὰ συντασσόμενα μιᾷ τῶν πλαγίων πτώσεων πρὸς κατηγορήματος γένε …

Pindar, Olympian 8.24: ὀρθᾷ διακρίνειν φρενὶ μὴ παρὰ καιρόν,

All forms of ὀρθός (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.