ἐντυχών (entychon)

ἐντυχών is an Ancient Greek form of ἐντυγχάνω, meaning “meet with, come upon”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 134 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.5.2: τούτοις οὖν ὁ Φαίαξ ἐντυχὼν τοῖς κομιζομένοις οὐκ ἠδίκησεν· ἐγεγένητο γὰρ τοῖς Λοκροῖς πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁμολογία ξυμβάσεως πέρι πρὸς τοὺς Ἀθηναίους.

Plutarch, Lucullus 36.7: … ον ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀσίαν, ὡς λάφυρα καὶ λείαν τοὺς βαρβάρους, ἄλλο δʼ οὐδὲν ὄντας. ταχὺ μέντοι τοῖς Πάρθων τοξεύμασιν ἐντυχών ἀπέδειξε τὸν Λούκουλλον οὐκ ἀφροσύνῃ καὶ μαλακίᾳ τῶν πολεμίων, αὑτοῦ δὲ τόλμῃ καὶ δεινότητι περιγενόμενον. ἀλ …

Aesop, Fables 221: Δηχθείς τις ὑπὸ κυνὸς τὸν ἰασόμενον περιῄει ζητῶν. Ἐντυχὼν δέ τις αὐτῷ καὶ γνοὺς ὅ ζητεῖ, „ὦ οὗτος“ εἶπεν, „εἰ σώζεσθαι βούλει, λαβὼν ἄρτον, καὶ τούτῳ τὸ αἷμα τῆς πληγῆ …

All forms of ἐντυγχάνω (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.