δραστήριον (drasterion)

δραστήριον is an Ancient Greek form of δραστήριος, meaning “active, effective”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.81.1: αὐτόν τε Βρασίδαν βουλόμενον μάλιστα Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἀπέστειλαν (προυθυμήθησαν δὲ καὶ οἱ Χαλκιδῆς), ἄνδρα ἔν τε τῇ Σπάρτῃ δοκοῦντα δραστήριον εἶναι ἐς τὰ πάντα καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἐξῆλθε πλείστου ἄξιον Λακεδαιμονίοις γενόμενον.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 39.57.2: … ενὸς μοίρᾳ ὢν ἑωρᾶτο, τοῦτον μὲν ἀπέκτεινεν, Ἀρχέλαον δὲ τὸν τοῦ Ἀρχελάου τοῦ πρὸς τὸν Σύλλαν αὐτομολήσαντος, δραστήριόν τε ὄντα καὶ ἐν τῇ Συρίᾳ τὴν δίαιταν ἔχοντα, ἐπὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐπηγάγετο. ὁ γὰρ Γαβίνιος ἐδύνατο μὲν ἀρχόμενον τ …

All forms of δραστήριος (declension 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.