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Ῥῆνον (Rhenon)

Ῥῆνον is an Ancient Greek form of Ῥῆνος, meaning “Rhenos — the river Rhine”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caesar 19.5: … Ῥήνου διώξας κατέπλησε τοῦτο πᾶν νεκρῶν τὸ πεδίον καὶ λαφύρων, Ἀριόβιστος δὲ φθάσας μετʼ ὀλίγων διεπέρασε τὸν Ῥῆνον· ἀριθμὸν δὲ νεκρῶν μυριάδας ὀκτὼ γενέσθαι λέγουσι.

Strabo, Geography 4.5.1: … ὸ κατὰ τὴν Ἀκυιτανίαν καὶ τὴν Πυρήνην ἀντικείμενον. τοῦτο μὲν δὴ τοὐλάχιστον διάστημα ἀπὸ τῆς Πυρήνης ἐπὶ τὸν Ῥῆνόν ἐστιν, ἐπεὶ τὸ μέγιστον εἴρηται ὅτι καὶ πεντακισχιλίων σταδίων ἐστίν· ἀλλʼ εἰκὸς εἶναί τινα σύννευσιν ἐκ τῆς …

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.