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ἁπτόμενοι (haptomenoi)

ἁπτόμενοι is an Ancient Greek form of ἅπτω, meaning “fasten, light; (mid.) touch, grasp (gen.)”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.717: ἁπτόμενοι θυέων· καί τʼ εἰσέτι νῦν γε τέτυκται

Plutarch, Brutus 17.3: Καίσαρι δὲ εἰσιόντι μὲν ἡ σύγκλητος ὑπεξανέστη, καθεζόμενον δʼ εὐθὺς ἐκεῖνοι περιέσχον ἁθρόοι, Τίλλιον Κίμβρον ἐξ ἑαυτῶν προβάλλοντες ὑπὲρ ἀδελφοῦ φυγάδος δεόμενον· καὶ συνεδέοντο πάντες, ἁπτόμενοί τε χειρῶν καὶ στέρνα καὶ κεφαλὴν κατεφίλουν.

All forms of ἅπτω (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.