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αἱρούμενοι (hairoumenoi)

αἱρούμενοι is an Ancient Greek form of αἱρέω, meaning “to take, seize, capture; (mid.) choose”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Solon 13.1: … ίων γένος δημοκρατικώτατον, ὀλιγαρχικώτατον δὲ τὸ τῶν Πεδιέων· τρίτοι δʼ οἱ Πάραλοι μέσον τινὰ καὶ μεμιγμένον αἱρούμενοι πολιτείας τρόπον, ἐμποδὼν ἦσαν καὶ διεκώλυον τοὺς ἑτέρους κρατῆσαι.

All forms of αἱρέω (conjugation 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.