λαχών (lachon)

λαχών is an Ancient Greek form of λαγχάνω, meaning “obtain by lot, receive”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 100 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.62.1: μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν Ἀθηναίων στρατηγοὶ ἐν τῇ Σικελίᾳ, δύο μέρη ποιήσαντες τοῦ στρατεύματος καὶ λαχὼν ἑκάτερος, ἔπλεον ξύμπαντι ἐπὶ Σελινοῦντος καὶ Ἐγέστης,βουλόμενοι μὲν εἰδέναι τὰ χρήματα εἰ δώσουσιν οἱ Ἐγεστα …

Sophocles, Ajax 1284: λαχών τε κἀκέλευστος ἦλθʼ ἐναντίος,

Bacchylides, Epinicians 6.1: Λάχων Διὸς μεγίστου

All forms of λαγχάνω (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.