ἀνίσχοντα (anischonta)

ἀνίσχοντα is an Ancient Greek form of ἀνά-ἴσχω, meaning “hold up”. It is the present active participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.9.4: … ωριῆς Καρσὶ πρόσοικοι, Ἰωνία, Ἑλλήσποντος, τὰ ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης, νῆσοι ὅσαι ἐντὸς Πελοποννήσου καὶ Κρήτης πρὸς ἥλιον ἀνίσχοντα, πᾶσαι αἱ Κυκλάδες πλὴν Μήλου καὶ Θήρας.

Procopius, De Bellis 7.38.10: εἷλον δὲ αὐτὴν τρόπῳ τοιῷδε. οἱ μὲν πλεῖστοι ἐν δυσχωρίαις πρὸ τοῦ περιβόλου σφᾶς αὐτοὺς ἔκρυψαν, ὀλίγοι δέ τινες ἀμφὶ τὰς πύλας γενόμενοι αἳ πρὸς ἀνίσχοντά εἰσιν ἥλιον, τοὺς ἐν ταῖς ἐπάλξεσι Ῥωμαίους ἠνώχλουν.

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.