ὕδραν (hydran)

ὕδραν is an Ancient Greek form of ὕδρα, meaning “water-serpent; labour in vain”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracles 152: ὕδραν ἕλειον εἰ διώλεσε κτανὼν

Plato, Republic 4.426·2: καὶ γάρ πού εἰσι πάντων χαριέστατοι οἱ τοιοῦτοι, νομοθετοῦντές τε οἷα ἄρτι διήλθομεν καὶ ἐπανορθοῦντες, ἀεὶ οἰόμενοί τι πέρας εὑρήσειν περὶ τὰ ἐν τοῖς συμβολαίοις κακουργήματα καὶ περὶ ἃ νυνδὴ ἐγὼ ἔλεγον, ἀγνοοῦντες ὅτι τῷ ὄντι ὥσπερ Ὕδραν τέμνουσιν.

All forms of ὕδρα (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.