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ἑλκόμενος (helkomenos)

ἑλκόμενος is an Ancient Greek form of ἕλκω, meaning “drag, draw, pull”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.5.90: … ρεῖον καὶ ἔδειξε κειρόμενον. ἐν Θήβαις ὑπὸ τοῦ γυμνασιάρχου μαστιγωθείσ—οἱ δέ, ἐν Κορίνθῳ ὑπʼ Εὐθυκράτουσ—καὶ ἑλκόμενος τοῦ ποδὸς ἐπέλεγεν ἀφροντιστῶν, ἕλκε ποδὸς τεταγὼν διὰ βηλοῦ θεσπεσίοιο.

Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 1094: ἑλκόμενός εἰμʼ.

All forms of ἕλκω (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.