δεόμενοι (deomenoi)

δεόμενοι is an Ancient Greek form of δέω, meaning “lack, need; (mid.) need, ask for”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative plural masculine.

It can also be a form of δέομαι, “need, ask for, beg (gen.)”.

Found 225 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.24.6: οἱ δὲ ἐν τῇ πόλει ὄντες Ἐπιδάμνιοι ἐπειδὴ ἐπιέζοντο, πέμπουσιν ἐς τὴν Κέρκυραν πρέσβεις ὡς μητρόπολιν οὖσαν, δεόμενοι μὴ σφᾶς περιορᾶν φθειρομένους, ἀλλὰ τούς τε φεύγοντας ξυναλλάξαι σφίσι καὶ τὸν τῶν βαρβάρων πόλεμον καταλῦσαι.

Plutarch, De Garrulitate 23: … ὡς βάρος τι δεῖ πιέζοντʼ ἀποθέσθαι τὸν λόγον, ἐπεὶ παραμένει γε καὶ ῥηθεὶς ὁμοίως· ἀλλʼ ἢ διʼ αὑτοὺς ἅνθρωποι δεόμενοί τινος λαλοῦσιν ἢ τοὺς ἀκούοντας ὠφελοῦντες ἢ χάριν τινὰ παρασκευάζοντες ἀλλήλοις ὥσπερ ἁλσὶ τοῖς λόγοις ἐφηδύ …

All forms of δέω (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.