ἔλαχεν (elachen)

ἔλαχεν is an Ancient Greek form of λαγχάνω, meaning “obtain by lot, receive”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 53 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.258: μαντοσύνας· ἴστω δὲ δυσώνυμος, ἥ μʼ ἔλαχεν, κὴρ

Demosthenes, Against Pantaenetus 9: … στήριον καὶ τἀνδράποδα, καὶ οὔτε παρῆν ἐγὼ τοῖς μετὰ ταῦτα πρὸς Εὔεργον τούτῳ πραχθεῖσιν οὔτʼ ἐπεδήμουν ὅλως, ἔλαχέν τε δίκην ἐκείνῳ καὶ οὐδὲν πώποθʼ ἡμῖν ἐνεκάλει, ἀκούετε τῶν μαρτύρων, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί.

All forms of λαγχάνω (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.