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πολιορκῶν (poliorkon)

πολιορκῶν is an Ancient Greek form of πολιορκέω, meaning “besiege”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Cimon 19.1: ἀπέθανε δὲ πολιορκῶν Κίτιον, ὡς οἱ πλεῖστοι λέγουσι, νοσήσας· ἔνιοι δέ φασιν ἐκ τραύματος, ὃ πρὸς τοὺς βαρβάρους ἀγωνιζόμενος ἔσχε …

All forms of πολιορκέω (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.