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ἐπαινοῦμεν (epainoumen)

ἐπαινοῦμεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπαινέω, meaning “praise, approve”. It is the 1st person plural present active indicative.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 3: … ολάστους ὁμιλίας γυναικῶν πρὸς ἄνδρας. ἐν οἷς μάλιστα δεῖ τὸν νέον ἐθίζεσθαι, διδασκόμενον ὅτι τὴν πρᾶξιν οὐκ ἐπαινοῦμεν ἧς γέγονεν ἡ μίμησις, ἀλλὰ τὴν τέχνην εἰ μεμίμηται προσηκόντως τὸ ὑποκείμενον. ἐπεὶ τοίνυν καὶ ποιητικὴ πολλά …

Plutarch, De Sera Numinis Vindicta 22: ἐπεὶ δὲ ταῦτʼ εἰπὼν ἐσιώπησα, διαμειδιάσας ὁ Ὀλύμπιχος οὐκ ἐπαινοῦμέν σʼ εἶπεν ὅπως μὴ δόξωμεν ἀφιέναι τὸν μῦθον, ὡς τοῦ λόγου πρὸς ἀπόδειξιν ἱκανῶς ἔχοντος, ἀλλὰ τότε δώσομεν τὴν …

All forms of ἐπαινέω (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.