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φαινομένοις (phainomenois)

φαινομένοις is an Ancient Greek form of φαίνω, meaning “to show, make appear; (mid./pass.) appear, seem”. It is the present middle/passive participle dative plural masculine.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.11.105: … ν, καὶ ὅτι φθείρεται πῶς δὲ ταῦτα γίνεται οὐκ ἴσμεν. μόνον οὖν, φασίν, ἀνθιστάμεθα πρὸς τὰ παρυφιστάμενα τοῖς φαινομένοις ἄδηλα. καὶ γὰρ ὅτε τὴν εἰκόνα ἐξοχὰς λέγομεν ἔχειν, τὸ φαινόμενον διασαφοῦμεν· ὅταν δʼ εἴπωμεν μὴ ἔχειν αὐτὴν …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 5.13.101: … ἁμέρας σέλας (ὁ μόνος ἡμέρας ἐνεστώσης νύκτα ποιῆσαι δυνάμενος ποιῆσαι, φησίν, θεὸς οὗτός ἐστιν), ἔν τε τοῖς Φαινομένοις ἐπιγραφομένοις Ἄρατος, ἐκ Διὸς ἀρχώμεσθα εἰπών, τὸν οὐδέποτ’, ἄνδρες, ἐῶμεν ἄρρητον· μεσταὶ δὲ Διὸς πᾶσαι μὲν …

All forms of φαίνω (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.