ἐδέξαντο (edexanto)

ἐδέξαντο is an Ancient Greek form of δείκνυμι, meaning “show, point out, display”.

It can also be a form of δέχομαι, “receive, accept, welcome”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist middle indicative.

Found 156 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.24.7: ταῦτα δὲ ἱκέται καθεζόμενοι ἐς τὸ Ἥραιον ἐδέοντο. οἱ δὲ Κερκυραῖοι τὴν ἱκετείαν οὐκ ἐδέξαντο, ἀλλ’ ἀπράκτους ἀπέπεμψαν.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 43.30.1: … στηκότων σφίσιν ἀχθόμενοι, καὶ ἐς ἐκεῖνον οὐκ ὀλίγα ἐκ τῆς τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ μνήμης ἐπελπίζοντες ἑτοίμως αὐτὸν ἐδέξαντὀ, Καρχηδόνα δὲ οὐκ

All forms of δείκνυμι (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.