δέχονται (dechontai)

δέχονται is an Ancient Greek form of δέχομαι, meaning “receive, accept, welcome”. It is the 3rd person plural present middle/passive indicative.

Found 81 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1217: Μοιράων δʼ ἔτι κεῖσε θύη ἐπέτεια δέχονται

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 8.17.5: … οχλοὺς παρέρχεται πρῶτος εἰς τὴν πόλιν. ἦν δʼ ὑφεστηκὸς ταῖς πύλαις πολὺ καὶ καρτερὸν στῖφος τῶν πολεμίων, οἳ δέχονταί τʼ αὐτὸν ἐρρωμένως καὶ μέχρι πολλοῦ διεκαρτέρουν ἀγωνιζόμενοι· πολλῶν δʼ ἀναιρεθέντων τρέπονται οἱ λοιποὶ καὶ …

All forms of δέχομαι (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.