καθήκουσαν (kathekousan)

καθήκουσαν is an Ancient Greek form of καθήκω, meaning “come down; be fitting”. It is the present active participle accusative singular feminine.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.99.4: τῆς δὲ Παιονίας παρὰ τὸν Ἀξιὸν ποταμὸν στενήν τινα καθήκουσαν ἄνωθεν μέχρι Πέλλης καὶ θαλάσσης ἐκτήσαντο, καὶ πέραν Ἀξιοῦ μέχρι Στρυμόνος τὴν Μυγδονίαν καλουμένην Ἠδῶνας ἐξελάσαντες νέμονται.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 44.53.1: τότε μὲν δὴ ταῦτα πρός τε τῶν ἄλλων καὶ πρὸς τῶν ὑπάτων ἐγένετο· καὶ γὰρ τὸν Δολοβέλλαν ὁ Ἀντώνιος, καίτοι μὴ βουληθεὶς τὰ πρῶτα ἐς τὴν ἀρχὴν ὡς οὐδέπω καθήκουσάν οἱ προσλαβεῖν,

All forms of καθήκω (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.