καθῆστο (kathesto)

καθῆστο is an Ancient Greek form of κάθημαι, meaning “sit, be seated”. It is the 3rd person singular pluperfect middle indicative.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1467: καθῆστο Κάδμου λαὸς ἀσπίδων ἔπι·

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War 5.69: καταρχομένων δʼ ἄρτι τῆς δομήσεως καὶ τὸ δέκατον τάγμα διὰ Ἱεριχοῦντος ἤδη παρῆν, ἔνθα καθῆστό τις ὁπλιτικὴ μοῖρα φρουροῦσα τὴν ἐμβολὴν ὑπὸ Οὐεσπασιανοῦ προκατειλημμένην.

All forms of κάθημαι (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.