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ἔχουσʼ (echous)

ἔχουσʼ is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the present active participle nominative singular feminine.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.5.93: … πολίτης ἀνεπιβουλεύτου φθόνῳ. μέμνηται δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ Μένανδρος ἐν Διδύμαις οὕτως· συμπεριπατήσεις γὰρ τρίβωνʼ ἔχουσʼ ἐμοί, ὥσπερ Κράτητι τῷ κυνικῷ ποθʼ ἡ γυνή, καὶ θυγατέρʼ ἐξέδωκʼ ἐκεῖνος, ὡς ἔφη αὐτός, ἐπὶ πείρᾳ δοὺς τριάκον …

Euripides, Alcestis 289: ἥβης, ἔχουσ’ ἐν οἷς ἐτερπόμην ἐγώ.

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 6.16.144: … αχνοῦται, χροιῆς ἄνθος ἀμειβομένης· τῇ δὲ τετάρτῃ πᾶς τις ἐν ἑβδομάδι μέγ’ ἄριστος ἰσχύν, ἥν τ’ ἄνδρες σήματ’ ἔχους̓ ἀρετῆς· πέμπτῃ δ’ ὥριον ἄνδρα γάμου μεμνημένον εἶναι καὶ παίδων ζητεῖν εἰσοπίσω γενεήν· τῇ δ’ ἕκτῃ περὶ πάντα …

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.