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δεξαμένων (dexamenon)

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

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.33.4: ἡμέτερον δέ γ’ αὖ ἔργον προτερῆσαι, τῶν μὲν διδόντων, ὑμῶν δὲ δεξαμένων τὴν ξυμμαχίαν, καὶ προεπιβουλεύειν αὐτοῖς μᾶλλον ἢ ἀντεπιβουλεύειν.

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 1.10·2: … δῶν τέ τινων ἑτέρων ἐπὶ τὰς ἐκκρίσεις αὐτὰ παραγουσῶν, ὡς μὴ λυμαίνοιτο τοῖς χρηστοῖς, ὑποδοχῶν τέ τινων οἷον δεξαμενῶν, ἐν αἷς ὅταν εἰς ἱκανὸν πλῆθος ἀφίκηται, τηνικαῦτʼ ἐκκριθήσεται. δεύτερον δή σοι καὶ τοῦτο τὸ γένος τῶν ἐν τῷ …

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.