φυλακή (phylake)

φυλακή means “guard, watch; prison”.

Ancient Greek word, found 1,662 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Homer, Iliad 2.695: οἳ δʼ εἶχον Φυλάκην καὶ Πύρασον ἀνθεμόεντα

Homer, Odyssey 11.290: ἐκ Φυλάκης ἐλάσειε βίης Ἰφικληείης

Herodotus, Histories 1.24.7: Περίανδρον δὲ ὑπὸ ἀπιστίης Ἀρίονα μὲν ἐν φυλακῇ ἔχειν οὐδαμῇ μετιέντα, ἀνακῶς δὲ ἔχειν τῶν πορθμέων. ὡς δὲ ἄρα παρεῖναι αὐτούς, κληθέντας ἱστορέεσθαι εἴ τι λ …

All forms of φυλακή (declension)

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.