δεξάμενον (dexamenon)

δεξάμενον is an Ancient Greek form of δέχομαι, meaning “receive, accept, welcome”. It is the aorist middle participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.11.118: ἀλλὰ καὶ ἰσχάδα προτείναντος αὐτῷ ποτε καὶ ἐρώτημα, δεξάμενον καταφαγεῖν· τοῦ δέ, ὦ Ἡράκλεις, εἰπόντος, ἀπολώλεκα τὴν ἰσχάδα· οὐ μόνον, ἔφη, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἐρώτημα, οὗ ἦν ἀρρ …

Apollodorus, Library 2.5.5: … κλέα βαδίζειν ἐξ Ἤλιδος ἐκέλευσε. Φυλεὺς μὲν οὖν εἰς Δουλίχιον ἦλθε κἀκεῖ κατῴκει, Ἡρακλῆς δὲ εἰς Ὤλενον πρὸς Δεξαμενὸν ἧκε, καὶ κατέλαβε τοῦτον μέλλοντα διʼ ἀνάγκην μνηστεύειν Εὐρυτίωνι Κενταύρῳ Μνησιμάχην τὴν θυγατέρα· ὑφʼ οὗ π …

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.