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νικήσαντα (nikesanta)

νικήσαντα is an Ancient Greek form of νικάω, meaning “conquer, win, prevail”. It is the aorist active participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.71: … οὐδὲ οἱ πολλὰ ἀλλʼ οἱ χρήσιμα ἀναγινώσκοντές εἰσι σπουδαῖοι. πρὸς τὸν ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ λογογράφον δίκην εἰπόντα καὶ νικήσαντα, ἔπειτα φάσκοντα πρὸς αὐτόν, τί σε ὤνησε Σωκράτης; ἔφη, τοῦτο, τοὺς λόγους, οὓς εἶπας ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ, ἀληθεῖς εἶνα …

Euripides, The Trojan Women 1209: ὦ τέκνον, οὐχ ἵπποισι νικήσαντά σε

All forms of νικάω (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.