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καθημένους (kathemenous)

καθημένους is an Ancient Greek form of κατηαι, meaning “sit (see κάθημαι)”. It is the perfect middle participle accusative plural masculine.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.7.2: … νήσοιτο καὶ οἴκοθεν ὡς ἄκοντες αὐτῷ ξυνῆλθον, αἰσθόμενος τὸν θροῦν καὶ οὐ βουλόμενος αὐτοὺς διὰ τὸ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ καθημένους βαρύνεσθαι, ἀναλαβὼν ἦγεν.

Plutarch, Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero 1.5: … άτων γέλωτος δὲ λαμπροὺ κατιόντος ἐκ τῶν περιεστώτων προς τους δικαστάς, ἡσυχῆ διαμειδιάσας ὁ Κάτων προς τοὺς καθήμενους εἰπεὶν ὠς γελοῖον, ὦ ἀνδρες, ἔχομεν ὕπατον.

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.