δηχθείς (dechtheis)

δηχθείς is an Ancient Greek form of δάκνω, meaning “bite”. It is the aorist passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.5.78: … τεσθαι ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ μέχρι τι δόξει περὶ αὐτοῦ. ἐνταῦθα ἀθυμότερον διῆγε· καί πως ὑπνώττων ὑπʼ ἀσπίδος τὴν χεῖρα δηχθεὶς τὸν βίον μεθῆκε. καὶ τέθαπται ἐν τῷ Βουσιρίτῃ νομῷ πλησίον Διοσπόλεως.

Plutarch, Caesar 54.1: … νην γὰρ παραφυλάττων τὴν πόλιν οὐ μετέσχε τοῦ ἀγῶνος, πυθόμενος δὲ ὡς ἑαυτὸν ὁ ἀνὴρ διεργάσαιτο, δῆλος μὲν ἦν δηχθείς, ἐφʼ ᾧ δὲ ἄδηλον. εἶπε δʼ οὖν ὦ Κάτων, φθονῶ σοι τοῦ θανάτου· καὶ γὰρ σύ μοι τῆς σωτηρίας ἐφθόνησας. ὁ μὲν οὖ …

Aesop, Fables 221: Δηχθείς τις ὑπὸ κυνὸς τὸν ἰασόμενον περιῄει ζητῶν. Ἐντυχὼν δέ τις αὐτῷ καὶ γνοὺς ὅ ζητεῖ, „ὦ οὗτος“ εἶπεν, „εἰ σώζεσθ …

All forms of δάκνω (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.