κατήκοοι (katekooi)

κατήκοοι is an Ancient Greek form of κατήκοος, meaning “obedient”.

It can also be a form of κατήκους, “obedient, subject”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plato, Critias 120·2: ἐπὶ πολλὰς μὲν γενεάς, μέχριπερ ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ φύσις αὐτοῖς ἐξήρκει, κατήκοοί τε ἦσαν τῶν νόμων καὶ πρὸς τὸ συγγενὲς θεῖον φιλοφρόνως εἶχον·

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 42.17.2: καὶ εἴτε που κρατήσας ἠγγέλθη, ἔχαιρον, εἴτε καὶ πταίσας, ἐλυποῦντο, οἱ μὲν ἀληθῶς οἱ δὲ πλαστῶς ἑκάτερον· καὶ γὰρ κατάσκοποί σφων καὶ κατήκοοι, πάνθʼ ὅσα ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐλέγετο καὶ ἐγίγνετο παρατηροῦντες, πολλοὶ περιενόστουν·

All forms of κατήκοος (declension 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.