ἕπονται (hepontai)

ἕπονται is an Ancient Greek form of ἕπομαι, meaning “to follow, accompany”. It is the 3rd person plural present middle/passive indicative.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.58: Αἰσονίδης, ἠδʼ ἄλλοι ὅσοι μετὰ κῶας ἕπονται.

Xenophon, On Hunting 10.23: τὰ δὲ νεογενῆ αὐτῶν ὅταν ἁλίσκηται, χαλεπῶς τοῦτο πάσχει· οὔτε γὰρ μονοῦται, ἕως ἂν μικρὰ ᾖ, ὅταν τε αἱ κύνες εὕρωσιν ἢ προΐδῃ τι, ταχὺ εἰς τὴν ὕλην ἀφανίζεται, ἕπονταί τε ἐπὶ πολὺ ἄμφω ὧν ἂν ὦσι, χαλεποὶ ὄντες τότε καὶ μᾶλλον μαχόμενοι ὑπὲρ ἐκείνων ἢ ὑπὲρ αὑτῶν.

All forms of ἕπομαι (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.