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κλέπτην (klepten)

κλέπτην is an Ancient Greek form of κλέπτης, meaning “thief”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Demosthenes 11.5: … ἰπόντος ἐμὲ Δημοσθένης, ἡ ὗς τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν, αὕτη, εἶπεν, ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ πρώην ἐν Κολλυτῷ μοιχεύουσα ἐλήφθη. πρὸς δὲ τὸν κλέπτην ὃς ἐπεκαλεῖτο Χαλκοῦς, καὶ αὐτὸν εἰς τὰς ἀγρυπνίας αὐτοῦ καὶ νυκτογραφίας πειρώμενόν τι λέγειν, οἶδα, εἶπεν, …

All forms of κλέπτης (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.