ἕλκων (helkon)

ἕλκων is an Ancient Greek form of ἕλκω, meaning “drag, draw, pull”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.65: … ὃν μέγα φρονεῖς; ἰδὼν εὐπρεπῆ νεανίσκον ἀπρεπῶς λαλοῦντα, οὐκ αἰσχύνῃ, ἔφη, ἐξ ἐλεφαντίνου κολεοῦ μολυβδίνην ἕλκων μάχαιραν;

Plutarch, De esu carnium I 1: … αζομένων δερομένων διαμελιζομένων, πῶς ἡ ὄσφρησις ἤνεγκε τὴν ἀποφοράν πῶς τὴν γεῦσιν οὐκ ἀπέτρεψεν ὁ μολυσμὸς ἑλκῶν ψαύουσαν ἀλλοτρίων καὶ τραυμάτων θανασίμων χυμοὺς· καὶ ἰχῶρας ἀπολαμβάνουσαν. εἷρπον μὲν ῥινοί, κρέα δʼ ἀμφʼ …

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.