μάχονται (machontai)

μάχονται is an Ancient Greek form of μάχομαι, meaning “to fight”. It is the 3rd person plural present middle/passive indicative.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.4.77: μέμνηται αὐτοῦ καὶ Πλάτων ἐν Πρωταγόρᾳ· ἀνάγκᾳ δʼ οὐδὲ θεοὶ μάχονται. καὶ ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσιν. ἐρωτηθεὶς δέ ποτε τί ἄριστον, τὸ παρὸν εὖ ποιεῖν. καὶ ὑπὸ Κροίσου τίς ἀρχὴ μεγίστη …

All forms of μάχομαι (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.