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ποιούμενα (poioumena)

ποιούμενα is an Ancient Greek form of ποιέω, meaning “to make, do, create”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative plural neuter.

It can also be a form of ποιόω, “make of a certain quality”.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.43.3: μάλιστα δὲ ὁ Λίχας ἐσκόπει τὰ ποιούμενα, καὶ τὰς σπονδὰς οὐδετέρας, οὔτε τὰς Χαλκιδέως οὔτε τὰς Θηριμένους, ἔφη καλῶς ξυγκεῖσθαι, ἀλλὰ δεινὸν εἶναι ε …

Procopius, De Bellis 7.24.20: … κλώσεσθαι οἱ βάρβαροι ἔμελλον, ὡς μὴ ἀναστρέφειν ἐς τὴν πόλιν δυνατοὶ εἶεν. ἀλλὰ Βελισάριος ʽκατενόησε γὰρ τὰ ποιούμενἀ τῶν ἀμφ’ αὑτὸν πολλοὺς ἐνταῦθα στείλας διασώσασθαι τοὺς ἄνδρας ἴσχυσεν.

All forms of ποιέω (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.