Socratos Sign in

ἐχόμενα (echomena)

ἐχόμενα is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative plural neuter.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.6.29: … εθεὶς ἐπύθετο τὰ ἐξ Ἀνδρομέδας Εὐριπίδου προενεγκάμενος· ὦ παρθένʼ, εἰ σώσαιμί σʼ, εἴσει μοι χάριν; καὶ ὃς τὰ ἐχόμενα· ἄγου μʼ, ὦ ξένʼ, εἴτε δμωΐδʼ ἐθέλεις εἴτʼ ἄλοχον.

Plato, Laws 8.828: τούτων μὴν ἐχόμενά ἐστιν τάξασθαι μὲν καὶ νομοθετήσασθαι ἑορτὰς μετὰ τῶν ἐκ Δελφῶν μαντειῶν, αἵτινες θυσίαι καὶ θεοῖς οἷστισιν ἄ …

All forms of ἔχω (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.