ὀφθαλμοῖς (ophthalmois)

ὀφθαλμοῖς is an Ancient Greek form of ὀφθαλμός, meaning “eye”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

Found 178 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1147: δαῖε δʼ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς γλυκερὸν πόθον· ἴσχε δʼ ἑκάστην

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 141A.1: . . . ὀφθάλμοις δὲ μέλαις χύτο νύκτος ἄωρος.

Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 12.3: … ιν πολύν, καί με κωτίλλοντα λείως τραχὺν ἐκφανεῖν νόον. χαῦνα μὲν τότʼ ἐφράσαντο, νῦν δέ μοι χολούμενοι λοξὸν ὀφθαλμοῖσʼ ὁρῶσι πάντες ὥστε δήιον. οὐ χρεών· ἃ μὲν γὰρ εἶπα, σὺν θεοῖσιν ἤνυσα, ἄλλα δʼ οὐ μάτην ἔερδον, οὐδέ μοι τυραν …

All forms of ὀφθαλμός (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.