κλέπτων (klepton)

κλέπτων is an Ancient Greek form of κλέπτω, meaning “steal”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of κλέπτης, “thief”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.25: … ὑπʼ ἀτυφίας, ὥστε φασὶ λέγειν ἐκεῖνον, οὐ λανθάνεις, ὦ Ζήνων, ταῖς κηπαίαις παρεισρέων θύραις καὶ τὰ δόγματα κλέπτων Φοινικικῶς μεταμφιεννύς. καὶ πρὸς τὸν δείξαντα δʼ αὐτῷ διαλεκτικὸν ἐν τῷ θερίζοντι λόγῳ ἑπτὰ διαλεκτικὰς ἰδέα …

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1026: κλεπτῶν γὰρ ἡ νύξ, τῆς δʼ ἀληθείας τὸ φῶς.

All forms of κλέπτω (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.