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τολμώντων (tolmonton)

τολμώντων is an Ancient Greek form of τολμάω, meaning “dare, endure”. It is the present active participle genitive plural masculine.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Philopoemen 18.5: … διὰ τόπων χαλεπῶν, αὐτὸς οὐραγῶν καὶ πολλάκις ἀντεξελαύνων τοῖς πολεμίοις καὶ ὅλως ἐπισπώμενος ἐφʼ ἑαυτόν, οὐ τολμώντων ἀντεμβαλεῖν ἐκείνων, ἀλλὰ κραυγαῖς καὶ περιδρομαῖς χρωμένων ἄποθεν.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 188·4: … ιρήσεσιν αἱ γυναῖκες. πρόσεστι δὲ τούτῳ καὶ ἡ φθορὰ τοῦ ἐμβρύου, ἕτερος φόνος, κατά γε τὴν ἐπίνοιαν τῶν ταῦτα τολμῶντων. δεῖ μέντοι μὴ μέχρι τῆς ἐξόδου παρατείνειν αὐτῶν τὴν ἐξομολόγησιν, ἀλλὰ δέχεσθαι μὲν τὸ μέτρον τῶν δέκα ἐτῶν …

All forms of τολμάω (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.