ῥοπῆς (rhopes)

ῥοπῆς is an Ancient Greek form of ῥοπή, meaning “weight, balance; turn, influence”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.103.2: ὃ ὑμεῖς ἀσθενεῖς τε καὶ ἐπὶ ῥοπῆς μιᾶς ὄντες μὴ βούλεσθε παθεῖν μηδὲ ὁμοιωθῆναι τοῖς πολλοῖς, οἷς παρὸν ἀνθρωπείως ἔτι σῴζεσθαι, ἐπειδὰν πιεζομ …

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 1.12: … ν, ἐς τὸ μετόπωρον τελευτῶσι τὸν βίον. κοτὲ καὶ γέροντες ἁλῶναι Ῥηΐδιοι καὶ ἀπόφρικτοι ἁλόντες, ὅσον βραχείης Ῥοπῆς ἐς εὐνὴν θανάτου χρέος· ἄγχιστα ἅπαντες ἄπνοοι, σφυγμοὶ σμικροὶ, πυκνοὶ, ἀμυδροί. ἀλλὰ τάδε μὲν ξυνὰ πρὸς τὸ …

All forms of ῥοπή (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.