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λαθών (lathon)

λαθών is an Ancient Greek form of λανθάνω, meaning “escape notice of, be unseen”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 153 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.280: ἐκ δʼ ὅγε καρπαλίμοισι λαθὼν ποσὶν οὐδὸν ἄμειψεν

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.3.60: … μοι προσέχεις, ἀπὸ χρισμῶν· Στράτωνα τοῦτόν φημί σοι Λάμψακος ὅν ποτʼ ἔφυσεν· ἀεὶ δὲ νόσοισι παλαίων θνήσκει λαθών, οὐδʼ ᾔσθετο.

Strabo, Geography 17.3.20·2: … , ἐν ᾗ μάλιστα νησίον ἐστὶ καὶ ἱερὸν τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἐν αὐτῷ· ἔστι δὲ καὶ λίμνη Ἑσπερίδων, καὶ ποταμὸς ἐμβάλλει Λάθων. ἐνδοτέρω δὲ τῆς Βερενίκης ἐστὶ τὸ μικρὸν ἀκρωτήριον λεγόμενον Βόρειον ὃ ποιεῖ τὸ στόμα τῆς σύρτεως πρὸς τὰς …

All forms of λανθάνω (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.