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δεχόμενοι (dechomenoi)

δεχόμενοι is an Ancient Greek form of δέχομαι, meaning “receive, accept, welcome”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.35.1: λύσετε δὲ οὐδὲ τὰς Λακεδαιμονίων σπονδὰς δεχόμενοι ἡμᾶς μηδετέρων ὄντας ξυμμάχους·

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.63.2: … ς ἐκ τῆς γῆς περαιοῦνται τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον καὶ καταχθέντες εἰς τὴν Θρᾴκην αὐτοῦ διατρίβουσι τὴν χειμερινὴν ὥραν δεχόμενοί τε τοὺς ἐπισυνιόντας ἐκ τῆς φυγῆς καὶ παρασκευαζόμενοι τὰ εἰς τὸν ἀπόπλουν. ἐκ δὲ τῆς Θρᾴκης ἀναστάντες ἔαρος …

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.