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ἑστώς (hestos)

ἑστώς is an Ancient Greek form of ἵστημι, meaning “to make stand, set up; (mid./intrans.) to stand”. It is the perfect active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 79 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.27: … ῖς Ἕλλησι διάξεις. εἶ γὰρ μνήμων καὶ φροντιστής, καὶ τὸ ταλαίπωρον ἔνεστιν ἐν τῇ γνώμῃ, κοὔτε τι κάμνεις οὔθʼ ἑστὼς οὔτε βαδίζων, οὔτε ῥιγῶν ἄχθει λίαν, οὔτʼ ἀρίστων ἐπιθυμεῖς, οἴνου τʼ ἀπέχει κἀδηφαγίας καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνοήτων …

Plutarch, Crassus 12.4: ταῦτα λέγοντος τοῦ ἀνθρώπου καὶ τοῦ δήμου διαλλάττεσθαι κελεύοντος, ὁ μὲν Πομπήιος ἡσυχίαν ἦγεν ἑστώς, ὁ δὲ Κράσσος ἐμβαλὼν τὴν δεξιὰν αὐτῷ πρότερος, οὐδέν, εἶπεν, ὦ ἄνδρες, οἶμαι, πολῖται, ταπεινὸν πράττειν οὐδ …

New Testament, Acts 25.10: εἶπεν δὲ ὁ Παῦλος Ἑστὼς ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματος Καίσαρός εἰμι, οὗ με δεῖ κρίνεσθαι. Ἰουδαίους οὐδὲν ἠδίκηκα, ὡς καὶ σὺ κάλλιον ἐπιγινώσκεις.

All forms of ἵστημι (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.