ἐκδέχεται (ekdechetai)

ἐκδέχεται is an Ancient Greek form of ἐκδέχομαι, meaning “receive, succeed to”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.89: … πος μὲν ἐξακούει, ᾗ ἀκολούθως δεῖ ζῆν, τήν τε κοινὴν καὶ ἰδίως τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην· ὁ δὲ Κλεάνθης τὴν κοινὴν μόνην ἐκδέχεται φύσιν, ᾗ ἀκολουθεῖν δεῖ, οὐκέτι δὲ καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ μέρους. Τήν τʼ ἀρετὴν διάθεσιν εἶναι ὁμολογουμένην· καὶ αὐτὴν …

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War 3.492: Ἐκδέχεται δὲ αὐτοὺς πάλιν στάσις ἔσω χαλεπή· τοῖς μὲν γὰρ ἐπιχωρίοις διά τε τὰς κτήσεις καὶ τὴν πόλιν οὐκ ἐδόκει πολεμεῖν ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς καὶ τότε διὰ τὴν ἧτταν πλέον·

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume IV 11.348.2: πατρολέτωρ· πάντῃ δʼ ἐκδέχεταί σε μόρος.

All forms of ἐκδέχομαι (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.