κατηγόρουν (kategoroun)

κατηγόρουν is an Ancient Greek form of κατηγορέω, meaning “accuse”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 69 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Themistocles 23.3: … ρεθεῖσαι καὶ γράμματα περὶ τούτων εἰς ὑποψίαν ἐνέβαλον τὸν Θεμιστοκλέα· καὶ κατεβόων μὲν αὐτοῦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, κατηγόρουν δʼ οἱ φθονοῦντες τῶν πολιτῶν, οὐ παρόντος, ἀλλὰ διὰ γραμμάτων ἀπολογουμένου μάλιστα ταῖς προτέραις κατηγορίαι …

Demosthenes, Against Stephanus I 20: … αὑτοῦ λαβεῖν, γραμματεῖον δʼ αὑτῷ καταλειφθῆναι μαρτυρῆσαι φαῦλον καὶ οὐδέν. ἔστι δὲ τοῦτʼ αὐτὸ τὸ δηλοῦν καὶ κατηγοροῦν ὅτι πᾶν τὸ πρᾶγμα κατεσκευάκασιν.

All forms of κατηγορέω (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.