διώκων (diokon)

διώκων is an Ancient Greek form of διώκω, meaning “pursue, chase; prosecute”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 197 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 112: λῃστὰς διώκων οἳ Βρόμιον ἀνήρπασαν.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 39.3.2: αἰσθόμενος δὲ τοῦτʼ ἐκεῖνος (προεκεχωρήκει γὰρ ἐπί τι τοὺς τετραμμένους διώκωνʼ ἀνέστρεψε, καὶ καταλαβὼν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ ἐρύματι ἁρπαγὴν ποιουμένους περιεστοιχίσατο καὶ κατεφόνευσε. πράξας δὲ ταῦτα, οὐδὲν ἔτι μέγα ἔργον τοὺς λοιποὺς Νερουίους χειρούμενος ἔσχε.

All forms of διώκω (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.