ἐπαινοῦντες (epainountes)

ἐπαινοῦντες is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπαινέω, meaning “praise, approve”. It is the present active participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 77 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.27: … γγιστα εἶναι θεῶν. τοῦτο δʼ ἐνέσται καὶ παρὰ τῶν κωμῳδοποιῶν λαβεῖν, οἳ λανθάνουσιν ἑαυτοὺς διʼ ὧν σκώπτουσιν ἐπαινοῦντες αὐτόν. Ἀριστοφάνης μὲν οὕτως· ὦ τῆς μεγάλης ἐπιθυμήσας σοφίας ἄνθρωπε δικαίως, ὡς εὐδαίμων παρʼ Ἀθηναίοις καὶ …

Xenophon, Anabasis 5.6.4: … ἡ ἱερὰ ξυμβουλὴ λεγομένη εἶναι δοκεῖ μοι παρεῖναι· νῦν γὰρ δὴ ἂν μὲν εὖ ξυμβουλεύσας φανῶ, πολλοὶ ἔσονται οἱ ἐπαινοῦντές με, ἂν δὲ κακῶς, πολλοὶ ἔσεσθε οἱ καταρώμενοι.

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.