ἀγαπῶντας (agapontas)

ἀγαπῶντας is an Ancient Greek form of ἀγαπάω, meaning “love, be fond of”. It is the present active participle accusative plural masculine.

It can also be a form of ἀγαπάζω, “welcome warmly”.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pericles 1.1: ξένους τινὰς ἐν Ῥώμῃ πλουσίους κυνῶν τέκνα καὶ πιθήκων ἐν τοῖς κόλποις περιφέροντας καὶ ἀγαπῶντας ἰδὼν ὁ Καῖσαρ, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἠρώτησεν εἰ παιδία παρʼ αὐτοῖς οὐ τίκτουσιν αἱ γυναῖκες, ἡγεμονικῶς σφόδρα νουθετήσ …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 7.254: … εἴσεισι πρὸς αὐτὸν Ἰώαβος καὶ παρηγορῶν ὦ δέσποτα, φησί, λανθάνεις διαβάλλων σαυτὸν οἷς ποιεῖς, ὅτι τοὺς μὲν ἀγαπῶντάς σε καὶ περὶ σοῦ κινδυνεύοντας καὶ σαυτὸν καὶ τὴν σὴν γενεὰν δοκεῖς μισεῖν, στέργειν δὲ τοὺς ἐχθροτάτους καὶ π …

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.