ἐσθίοντες (esthiontes)

ἐσθίοντες is an Ancient Greek form of ἐσθίω, meaning “eat”. It is the present active participle nominative plural masculine.

It can also be a form of εἰσθέω, “run in”.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.71: … ὰρ περὶ ὁμοίας, ἔφη, ψυχῆς ἀγωνιῶμεν ἑκάτεροι. σεμνυνομένου τινὸς ἐπὶ πολυμαθείᾳ ἔφη, ὥσπερ οὐχ οἱ τὰ πλεῖστα ἐσθίοντες [καὶ γυμναζόμενοι] ὑγιαίνουσι μᾶλλον τῶν τὰ δέοντα προσφερομένων, οὕτως οὐδὲ οἱ πολλὰ ἀλλʼ οἱ χρήσιμα ἀναγινώ …

All forms of ἐσθίω (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.