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προσεκύνησαν (prosekynesan)

προσεκύνησαν is an Ancient Greek form of προσκυνέω, meaning “bow down before”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Crassus 31.1: … τοὺς δὲ ῥαβδούχους ἑπομένους ὁ Κράσσος ἀπήλασεν. πρῶτοι δὲ τῶν βαρβάρων ἀπήντησαν αὐτῷ δύο μιξέλληνες, οἳ καὶ προσεκύνησαν τόν Κράσσον ἀπὸ τῶν ἵππων ἁλόμενοι, καὶ προσαγορεύσαντες ἑλλάδι φωνῇ παρεκάλουν προπέμψαι τινάς, οἷς ἐπιδείξε …

All forms of προσκυνέω (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.