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ἐδέχετο (edecheto)

ἐδέχετο is an Ancient Greek form of δέχομαι, meaning “receive, accept, welcome”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 55 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.12: … ν, ἀεὶ ἦγε δῶρα αὐτῷ, καὶ ὁπότε ἐκεῖνος εἰς τὴν χώραν καταβαίνοι, πολὺ πάντων τῶν ὑπάρχων κάλλιστα καὶ ἥδιστα ἐδέχετο αὐτόν,

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 41.19.4: Μασσαλιωτῶν οὐκ ἐδέχετὀ, ἔπειτʼ ἐπειδὴ ἀντήρκουν, ἐκείνους μὲν ἑτέροις προσέταξεν, αὐτὸς δὲ ἐς τὴν Ἰβηρίαν ἠπείχθη.

All forms of δέχομαι (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.