ἄχθονται (achthontai)

ἄχθονται is an Ancient Greek form of ἄχθομαι, meaning “be vexed, be burdened”. It is the 3rd person plural present middle/passive indicative.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 16: … οὕτως ἔφυ μὲν οὐδεὶς ὅστις οὐ πονεῖ βροτῶν. θάπτει τε τέκνα χἄτερʼ αὖ κτᾶται νέα, αὐτός τε θνήσκει· καὶ τάδʼ ἄχθονται βροτοὶ εἰς γῆν φέροντες γῆν. ἀναγκαίως δʼ ἔχει βίον θερίζειν ὥστε κάρπιμον στάχυν, καὶ τὸν μὲν εἶναι τὸν δὲ μ …

Lucian of Samosata, Necyomantia 16: … οῦ γενέσθαι, μηδὲν τοῦ πλησίον διαφέρων. ἔνιοι δὲ ὑπʼ ἀγνωμοσύνης, ἐπειδὰν ἀπαιτῇ τὸν κόσμον ἐπιστᾶσα ἡ Τύχη, ἄχθονταί τε καὶ ἀγανακτοῦσιν ὥσπερ οἰκείων τινῶν στερισκόμενοι καὶ οὐχ ἃ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐχρήσαντο ἀποδιδόντες. οἶμαι δέ σ …

All forms of ἄχθομαι (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.