ὁλκήν (holken)

ὁλκήν is an Ancient Greek form of ὁλκή, meaning “pulling, weight”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 28.11: μόνα τὰ βιβλία τοῦ βασιλέως φιλογραμματοῦσι τοῖς υἱέσιν ἐπέτρεψεν ἐξελέσθαι, καὶ διανέμων ἀριστεῖα τῆς μάχης Αἰλίῳ Τουβέρωνι τῷ γαμβρῷ φιάλην ἔδωκε πέντε λιτρῶν ὁλκήν.

Plutarch, Alexander 35.5: … ον ἔχρισεν. οὐ γὰρ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐκείνων οὐδὲ ἀπʼ αὐτομάτου λάμψαι τὸ πῦρ, ἀλλὰ φλογὸς ἐγγύθεν παρατεθείσης ὀξεῖαν ὁλκὴν καὶ συναφὴν ἄδηλον αἰσθήσει γενέσθαι.

All forms of ὁλκή (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.