ὀρθόν (orthon)

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

Found 259 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1287: ὀρθὸν ἐπʼ οὐριάχῳ, κυνέην δʼ ἀποκάτθετʼ ἐρείσας.

Plutarch, Romulus 16.6: ὑπολαβὼν δὲ τῷ δεξιῷ τὸ τρόπαιον ὤμῳ προσερειδόμενον ὀρθόν, ἐβάδιζεν ἐξάρχων ἐπινικίου παιᾶνος ἐν ὅπλοις ἑπομένῃ τῇ στρατιᾷ, δεχομένων τῶν πολιτῶν μετὰ χαρᾶς καὶ θαύματ …

Hesiod, Theogony 293: Ὄρθον τε κτείνας καὶ βουκόλον Εὐρυτίωνα

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.