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βοῶντες (boontes)

βοῶντες is an Ancient Greek form of βοάω, meaning “shout, cry out”. It is the present active participle nominative plural masculine.

It can also be a form of βοόω, “(garbled form)”.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pericles 12.1: … τασκευή, τοῦτο μάλιστα τῶν πολιτευμάτων τοῦ Περικλέους ἐβάσκαινον οἱ ἐχθροὶ καὶ διέβαλλον ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις, βοῶντες ὡς ὁ μὲν δῆμος ἀδοξεῖ καὶ κακῶς ἀκούει τὰ κοινὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων χρήματα πρὸς αὑτὸν ἐκ Δήλου μεταγαγών,

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 7.11.7: … αῦτα εἰπόντα προσελθὼν ὁ Καλλίνης τε ἐφίλησε καὶ ὅστις ἄλλος φιλῆσαι ἠθέλησε. καὶ οὕτω δὴ ἀναλαβόντες τὰ ὅπλα βοῶντές τε καὶ παιωνίζοντες ἐς τὸ στρατόπεδον ἀπῄεσαν.

All forms of βοάω (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.