κρατῶν (kraton)

κρατῶν is an Ancient Greek form of κρατέω, meaning “rule, be master of, prevail”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of κάρα, “head”.

Found 120 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.16.1: … ταμοῦ πρὸς θάλασσαν ἐπεστράτευσε καὶ τὰς ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ πόλεις ἐδούλωσε, Δαρεῖός τε ὕστερον τῷ Φοινίκων ναυτικῷ κρατῶν καὶ τὰς νήσους.

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 1.1.2: καὶ ὁ Κράτων ἀνακραγών εὖ γʼ εἶπε νὴ τὸν Διόνυσον ἐξώμνυτο τὸν λόγον, εἰ τοιαύτας ἔμελλε περαίνειν περιόδους, αἷς ἔμελλε Χ …

All forms of κρατέω (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.