ἀντεῖχον (anteichon)

ἀντεῖχον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀντέχω, meaning “hold out, resist”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 73 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.11.1: … ῆς Χερσονήσου τραπόμενοι καὶ λῃστείαν τῆς τροφῆς ἀπορίᾳ. ᾗ καὶ μᾶλλον οἱ Τρῶες αὐτῶν διεσπαρμένων τὰ δέκα ἔτη ἀντεῖχον βίᾳ, τοῖς αἰεὶ ὑπολειπομένοις ἀντίπαλοι ὄντες.

Procopius, De Bellis 4.23.8: καὶ χρόνον μὲν ἀντεῖχόν τινα, ἔπειτα δὲ πλήθει πολλῷ βιαζόμενοι ἐς λόφον ἀνέδραμον ἐνταῦθά πη ὄντα, οὗ δὴ καὶ φρούριον οὐκ ἀσφαλὲς ἦν.

All forms of ἀντέχω (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.