μαχομένων (machomenon)

μαχομένων is an Ancient Greek form of μάχομαι, meaning “to fight”. It is the present middle/passive participle genitive plural masculine.

Found 107 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.113.4: ἀλλὰ πλέον ἢ χιλίων.’ αὖθις δὲ εἶπεν ἐκεῖνος ‘οὐκ ἄρα τῶν μεθ’ ἡμῶν μαχομένων ἐστίν.’ ὁ δ’ ἀπεκρίνατο ‘εἴπερ γε ὑμεῖς ἐν Ἰδομενῇ χθὲς ἐμάχεσθε.’ ‘ἀλλ’ ἡμεῖς γε οὐδενὶ ἐμαχόμεθα χθές, ἀλλὰ …

Aesop, Fables 21c: Μαχομένων δήποτε τῶν ἀλεκτόρων διὰ τὴν ὄρνιν, τὸ τίς αὐτὴν ἐγγήμῃ, ὁ εἷς ἡττηθεὶς ἐκρύπτετο ἔν τινι γωνίᾳ, ὡς δειλιάσας …

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.