Ὑρκάνιοι (Hyrkanioi)

Ὑρκάνιοι is an Ancient Greek form of Ὑρκάνιος, meaning “Hyrkanios — Hyrcanian; Hyrcania, a land on the SE shore of the Caspian Sea”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Anabasis 7.8.15: … ὲ αὐτῶν καὶ πυρσευόντων ἐκβοηθοῦσιν Ἰταμένης μὲν ἔχων τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δύναμιν, ἐκ Κομανίας δὲ ὁπλῖται Ἀσσύριοι καὶ Ὑρκάνιοι ἱππεῖς καὶ οὗτοι βασιλέως μισθοφόροι ὡς ὀγδοήκοντα, καὶ ἄλλοι πελτασταὶ εἰς ὀκτακοσίους, ἄλλοι δʼ ἐκ Παρθενίο …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 3.18: … ον, καὶ τὸ γινόμενον ἔγνων, ἔφευγον καὶ αὐτοί. τὸν δὲ τῶν Καππαδοκῶν βασιλέα ἔτι ἐγγὺς ὄντα κατακαίνουσιν οἱ ‘Υρκάνιοι. καὶ οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι ἐδίωκον, ὁ δὲ Κῦρος τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ περιελαύνειν ἐκέλευε τὸ στρατόπεδον, καὶ κτείνειν μὲν τοὺ …

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.