ἠδύναντο (edynanto)

ἠδύναντο is an Ancient Greek form of δύναμαι, meaning “to be able, can”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist middle indicative.

It can also be a form of ἡδύνω, “season; make pleasant”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist middle indicative.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pericles 7.1: … γέροντες ἐξεπλήττοντο πρὸς τὴν ὁμοιότητα. πλούτου δὲ καὶ γένους προσόντος αὐτῷ λαμπροῦ καὶ φίλων οἳ πλεῖστον ἠδύναντο, φοβούμενος ἐξοστρακισθῆναι, τῶν μὲν πολιτικῶν οὐδὲν ἔπραττεν, ἐν δὲ ταῖς στρατείαις ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸς ἦν καὶ φιλοκ …

Aesop, Fables 293: … αι προσπιᾶσαι κατήσθιον· διὰ δὲ τὴν γλυκύτητα τοῦ καρποῦ οὐκ ἀφίσταντο. Ἐμπαγέντων δʼ αὐτῶν τῶν ποδῶν, ὡς οὐκ ἡδύναντο ἀναπτῆναι, ἀποπνιγόμεναι ἔφασαν· „ἄθλιαι ἡμεῖς, αἳ διὰ βραχεῖαν ἡδονὴν ἀπολλύμεθα.“ Οὕτω πολλάκις ἡ λιχνεία π …

All forms of δύναμαι (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.