καθιστάς (kathistas)

καθιστάς is an Ancient Greek form of καθίστημι, meaning “set down, appoint; (intrans.) be established, become”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine or 2nd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

It can also be a form of καθιστάω, “set up, appoint, establish”. It is the 2nd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.42.1: ‘δι’ ὃ δὴ καὶ ἐμήκυνα τὰ περὶ τῆς πόλεως, διδασκαλίαν τε ποιούμενος μὴ περὶ ἴσου ἡμῖν εἶναι τὸν ἀγῶνα καὶ οἷς τῶνδε μηδὲν ὑπάρχει ὁμοίως, καὶ τὴν εὐλογίαν ἅμα ἐφ’ οἷς νῦν λέγω φανερὰν σημείοις καθιστάς.

Plutarch, Pompey 40.3: … έντοι φίλους ἐκέλευσε καταβῆναι καὶ πορεύεσθαι μετʼ αὐτοῦ· γενομένοις δὲ πλησίον ὁ πάντα διακοσμῶν ἐκεῖνα καὶ καθιστὰς ἔχων στέφανον καὶ ῥάβδον ἀπήντησε, πυνθανόμενος παρʼ αὐτῶν ποῦ Δημήτριον ἀπολελοίπασι καὶ πότε ἀφίξεται. τοὺς …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 4.4.7: … ίσεις, θανάτοις, ἐὰν δʼ ἐρήμους ἀφῶσιν, ὃ μᾶλλον αὐτοὺς οἶμαι ποιήσειν, ἀειφυγίᾳ καὶ δημεύσει τῶν ὑπαρχόντων, καθίστασʼ ἤδη τὰ περὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ὁμιλίαις τε φιλανθρώποις τὸ πλῆθος ἀναλαμβάνων καὶ τοῦ μηδὲν ἀδίκημα γενέσθαι πολλὴν ἔχ …

All forms of καθίστημι (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.