κατέστησαν (katestesan)

κατέστησαν is an Ancient Greek form of καθίστημι, meaning “set down, appoint; (intrans.) be established, become”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 287 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.6.4: μετρίᾳ δ’ αὖ ἐσθῆτι καὶ ἐς τὸν νῦν τρόπον πρῶτοι Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἐχρήσαντο καὶ ἐς τὰ ἄλλα πρὸς τοὺς πολλοὺς οἱ τὰ μείζω κεκτημένοι ἰσοδίαιτοι μάλιστα κατέστησαν.

Isocrates, On the Peace 84: εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ κατὲστησαν τῶν μὲν οἰκείων ἀμελείας τῶν δʼ ἀλλοτρίων ἐπιθυμίας, ὥστε Λακεδαιμονίων εἰσβεβληκότων εἰς τὴν χώραν καὶ τοῦ τ …

Julian, Emperor of Rome, Panegyric in Honor of the Emperor Constantinus 13: … λεύειν, ὡς ἐκεῖνον ᾔσθοντο τετελευτηκότα, τῶν διαδόχων ἀποστάντες Μακεδόσι τε εἰς τὴν ἀντίπαλον δύναμιν αὖθις κατεστησαν καὶ ἡμῖν τὸ λειπόμενον τῆς Μακεδόνων ἀρχῆς κατακτησαμένοις ἀξιόμαχοι διὰ τέλους ἔδοξαν εἶναι πολέμιοι. καὶ τῶ …

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.