ἔλαχον (elachon)

ἔλαχον is an Ancient Greek form of λαγχάνω, meaning “obtain by lot, receive”. It is the 1st person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 69 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.21.1: Λακεδαιμόνιοι δέ (ἔλαχον γὰρ πρότεροι ἀποδιδόναι ἃ εἶχον) τούς τε ἄνδρας εὐθὺς τοὺς παρὰ σφίσιν αἰχμαλώτους ἀφίεσαν καὶ πέμψαντες ἐς τ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 41.35.5: Ταῦτʼ εἰπὼν ἐκλήρωσεν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ θανάτῳ, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θρασυτάτους (οὗτοι γὰρ ἐκ παρασκευῆς ἔλαχονʼ ἐδικαίωσε, τοὺς δʼ ἄλλους ὡς οὐδέν σφων δεόμενος διῆκε. καὶ ἐκεῖνοι μὲν μετανοήσαντες ἐφʼ οἷς ἔπραξαν

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.