κατασκόπων (kataskopon)

κατασκόπων is an Ancient Greek form of κατάσκοπος, meaning “spy, scout”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of κατασκοπέω, “view closely, spy out, reconnoitre”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of κατασκοπή, “viewing closely, spying; to inspect”.

Found 44 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.45.1: τοῖς δὲ Συρακοσίοις ἐν τούτῳ πολλαχόθεν τε ἤδη καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν κατασκόπων σαφῆ ἠγγέλλετο ὅτι ἐν Ῥηγίῳ αἱ νῆές εἰσι, καὶ ὡς ἐπὶ τούτοις παρεσκευάζοντο πάσῃ τῇ γνώμῃ καὶ οὐκέτι ἠπίστουν …

Euripides, Helen 1607: ὅποι νοσοῖεν ξύμμαχοι κατασκοπῶν,

All forms of κατάσκοπος (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.