ἐπιτρόπων (epitropon)

ἐπιτρόπων is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπίτροπος, meaning “steward, guardian”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Philopoemen 3.2: … καὶ ἱππεύειν. ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ παλαίειν εὐφυῶς ἐδόκει καὶ παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ἄθλησιν ἔνιοι τῶν φίλων καὶ τῶν ἐπιτρόπων, ἠρώτησεν αὐτούς μή τι πρὸς τὴν στρατιωτικὴν ἄσκησιν ὑπὸ τῆς ἀθλήσεως βλαβήσοιτο.

Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 56.6: … άγει, γονέων κακώσεως ʽαὗται δʼ εἰσὶν ἀζήμιοι τῷ βουλομένῳ διώκειν̓, ὀρφανῶν κακώσεως ʽαὗται δʼ εἰσὶ κατὰ τῶν ἐπιτρόπων̓, ἐπικλήρου κακώσεως ʽαὗται δʼ εἰσὶ κατὰ τῶν ἐπιτρόπων καὶ τῶν συνοικούντων̓, οἴκου ὀρφανικοῦ κακώσεως ʽεἰσὶ δ …

All forms of ἐπίτροπος (declension 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.