ἐπῄνεσαν (epenesan)

ἐπῄνεσαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπαινέω, meaning “praise, approve”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 18.5: οἱ δʼ ἐν τέλει καὶ πρῶτοι τῆς γερουσίας, ὧν καὶ Φάβιος ἦν, ἡσυχίας γενομένης ἐπῄνεσαν, ὅτι τὴν πόλιν οὐκ ἀπέγνω μετὰ δυστυχίαν τηλικαύτην, ἀλλὰ πάρεστιν ἄρξων ἐπὶ τὰ πράγματα καὶ χρησόμενος τοῖς νόμοις καὶ τοῖς πολίταις ὡς σῴζεσθαι δυναμένοις.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 4.72.1: ὡς δὲ τοῦτʼ ἤκουσαν ἅπαντες, ἐπῄνεσάν τε καὶ ὡς ἀπὸ καλῆς ὑποθέσεως ἀρξάμενον καὶ νομίμου τὰ λοιπὰ λέγειν αὐτὸν ἠξίουν. κἀκεῖνος εἶπεν, Ἐπειδὴ ταῦτ …

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.