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δεξαμένου (dexamenou)

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

Found 65 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.36.1: … όμενος τὰς σπονδὰς λύσῃ, γνώτω τὸ μὲν δεδιὸς αὐτοῦ ἰσχὺν ἔχον τοὺς ἐναντίους μᾶλλον φοβῆσον, τὸ δὲ θαρσοῦν μὴ δεξαμένου ἀσθενὲς ὂν πρὸς ἰσχύοντας τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἀδεέστερον ἐσόμενον, καὶ ἅμα οὐ περὶ τῆς Κερκύρας νῦν τὸ πλέον ἢ καὶ τ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.50.4: … αι τοῦ Ἀμβρακικοῦ κόλπου πρὸς τὸ ἀκρωτήριον. κἀκεῖθεν εἰς Ἀμβρακίαν ἀφικνοῦνται πόλιν, ἧς ἐβασίλευεν Ἄμβραξ ὁ Δεξαμενοῦ τοῦ Ἡρακλέους, καὶ ὑπολείπονται ἑκατέρωθι μνημεῖα τῆς ἀφίξεως· ἐν Ἀκτίῳ μὲν Ἀφροδίτης Αἰνειάδος ἱερὸν καὶ πλη …

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.