ἐδέχοντο (edechonto)

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

Found 96 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.96.2: καὶ Ἑλληνοταμίαι τότε πρῶτον Ἀθηναίοις κατέστη ἀρχή, οἳ ἐδέχοντο τὸν φόρον· οὕτω γὰρ ὠνομάσθη τῶν χρημάτων ἡ φορά. ἦν δ’ ὁ πρῶτος φόρος ταχθεὶς τετρακόσια τάλαντα καὶ ἑξήκοντα. ταμιεῖόν τε Δῆλος ἦν αὐτοῖς, καὶ αἱ ξύνοδοι ἐς τὸ ἱερὸν ἐγίγνοντο.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 50.12.3: ἐπέπλει. ὡς δʼ οὐδείς οἱ οὔτʼ ἀντανήγετο οὔτʼ ἐς λόγους ᾔει, καίτοι δυοῖν αὐτοῦ θάτερον ἢ πρὸς ὁμολογίαν σφᾶς ἢ πρὸς μάχην προκαλουμένου (τὴν μὲν γὰρ τῇ πίστει τὴν δὲ τῷ δέει οὐκ ἐδέχοντὀ, κατέλαβε τὸ χωρίον τοῦτο ἐν ᾧ νῦν ἡ

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.