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Ὑρκανίαν (Hyrkanian)

Ὑρκανίαν is an Ancient Greek form of Ὑρκάνιος, meaning “Hyrkanios — Hyrcanian; Hyrcania, a land on the SE shore of the Caspian Sea”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lucullus 36.6: ἀλλὰ τὰ ἔσχατα καὶ τὴν Ὑρκανίαν θάλατταν, τῶν μὲν ἄλλων ἐθνῶν Τιγράνῃ προηττημένων, τῆς δὲ Πάρθων δυνάμεως οὐχ ὅση κατὰ Κράσσον ἐξεφάνη τοσαύ …

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.