ὀρθάς (orthas)

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

Found 282 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Helen 1095: αἰτούμεθʼ ὀρθὰς ὠλένας πρὸς οὐρανὸν

Xenophon, On Hunting 4.1: … συνδεδεμένα, ἔνδοθεν δὲ προσεσταλμένα, τὰ κάτωθεν τῶν κενεώνων λαγαρὰ καὶ αὐτοὺς τοὺς κενεῶνας, οὐρὰς μακράς, ὀρθάς, λιγυράς, μηριαίας μὴ σκληράς, ὑποκώλια μακρά, περιφερῆ, εὐπαγῆ, σκέλη πολὺ μείζω τὰ ὄπισθεν τῶν ἔμπροσθεν κα …

Pindar, Pythian 4.279: αὔξεται καὶ Μοῖσα διʼ ἀγγελίας ὀρθᾶς. ἐπέγνω μὲν Κυράνα

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.