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ὀρθοί (orthoi)

ὀρθοί is an Ancient Greek form of ὀρθός, meaning “straight, upright, correct”.

It can also be a form of ὀρθόω, “set upright”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 761: ἡμεῖς δ’ ἔτ’ ὀρθοὶ κοὐ γέροντες, ὡς δοκεῖς,

Sophocles, Antigone 1158: τύχη γὰρ ὀρθοῖ καὶ τύχη καταρρέπει

Plato, Minos 317: … πὶ ταῦτα ὀρθαί εἰσιν; ναί. τίς δὲ κρουμάτων ἐπὶ τὰ μέλη ἀγαθὸς νομεύς, καὶ τὰ ἄξια νεῖμαι; καὶ οἱ τίνος νόμοι ὀρθοί εἰσιν; οἱ τοῦ αὐλητοῦ καὶ τοῦ κιθαριστοῦ. ὁ νομικώτατος ἄρα ἐν τούτοις, οὗτος αὐλητικώτατος. ναί. τίς δὲ τὴν …

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.