Agioi Deka Agioi Deka Agioi Deka (, "Holy Ten") is a village in the Heraklion regional unit, Greece, with 861 inhabitants (2011 census). It is located in the 44th km of the Heraklion-Tympaki national road and it is the centre of the municipality of Gortyna (Δήμος Γόρτυνας). The village is built on the feet of a green hill with view to the plain of Messara, at altitude of 170 meters, over the remains of ancient Gortys. It is supposed that the cemetery of Gortys was located in this area, and many of the old houses are built using recycled material from the
Declension of Greek nouns in Latin Declension of Greek nouns in Latin The declension of nouns in Latin that are borrowed from Greek varies significantly between different types of nouns, though certain patterns are common. Many nouns, particularly proper names, in particular, are fully Latinized and declined regularly according to their stem-characteristics. Others, however, either retain their Greek forms exclusively, or have the Greek and Latin forms side by side. These variations occur principally in the singular, in the plural the declension is usually regular. Note, however, that many Greek names, of the third declension in Latin, pass over into the first declension in the Plural;