ὤτων (oton)

ὤτων is an Ancient Greek form of οὖς, meaning “ear”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

Found 92 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.24: … ἕλκοντος αὐτὸν Κράτητος τοῦ ἱματίου ἀπὸ Στίλπωνος, εἰπεῖν, ὦ Κράτης, λαβὴ φιλοσόφων ἐστὶν ἐπιδέξιος ἡ διὰ τῶν ὤτων· πείσας οὖν ἕλκε τούτων· εἰ δέ με βιάζῃ, τὸ μὲν σῶμα παρὰ σοὶ ἔσται, ἡ δὲ ψυχὴ παρὰ Στίλπωνι.

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 3.1.1: … υσοὺς ἐδίδασκεν, αὐτὸς δʼ ἡμῖν ὁρᾶτε ὡς ποικίλων χρωμάτων καὶ ἀνθηρῶν τὸ συμπόσιον ἐμπέπληκε, καὶ τὴν διὰ τῶν ὢτων ἀποκλείει τρυφὴν καὶ ἡδυπάθειαν τῆ αὐλείῳ, τὴν κατὰ τὰ ὄμματα καὶ τὰς ῥῖνας, ὥσπερ καθʼ ἑτέρας θύρας, ἐπεισάγ …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 2·7: … ς τῆς εὐσεβείας τὸ μεσονύκτιον, μάλιστα σχολὴν τῇ ψυχῇ τῆς νυκτερινῆς ἡσυχίας χαριζομένης, οὔτε ὀφθαλμῶν οὔτε ὠτῶν βλαβερὰς ἀκοὰς ἢ θέας ἐπὶ καρδίαν παραπεμπόντων, ἀλλὰ μόνου καθʼ ἑαυτὸν τοῦ νοῦ τῷ Θεῷ συνόντος, καὶ διορθουμ …

All forms of οὖς (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.