δέξηται (dexetai)

δέξηται is an Ancient Greek form of δείκνυμι, meaning “show, point out, display”.

It can also be a form of δέχομαι, “receive, accept, welcome”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle subjunctive.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pompey 46.2: … θε ῥώμῃ καὶ μεγέθει τῆς αὐτοῦ δυνάμεως καταλυθείς, καὶ καθάπερ τὰ καρτερώτατα μέρη καὶ χωρία τῶν πόλεων, ὅταν δέξηται πολεμίους, ἐκείνοις προστίθησι τὴν αὑτῶν ἰσχύν, οὕτως διὰ τῆς Πομπηΐου δυνάμεως Καῖσαρ ἐξαρθεὶς ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 89: … σιν ἐπιδοῦναι ἢ ποιῆσαί τι τῶν ὀφειλομένων, ἐὰν μὴ καὶ παρʼ ὑμῶν, τῶν τότε τὴν κοινωνίαν αὐτοῦ ἀναβαλλομένων, δέξηταί τινα τρόπον. αὐτὸς γὰρ λέγεται πάνυ ὡρμῆσθαι πρὸς τὸ συναφθῆναι ἡμῖν, καὶ τὰ κατὰ δύναμιν συμβαλέσθαι, λυπεῖσ …

All forms of δείκνυμι (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.