ἠξίωσαν (exiosan)

ἠξίωσαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀξιόω, meaning “think worthy, claim, ask”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 73 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.132.5: ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ὣς οὐδὲ τῶν Εἱλώτων μηνυταῖς τισὶ πιστεύσαντες ἠξίωσαν νεώτερόν τι ποιεῖν ἐς αὐτόν, χρώμενοι τῷ τρόπῳ ᾧπερ εἰώθασιν ἐς σφᾶς αὐτούς, μὴ ταχεῖς εἶναι περὶ ἀνδρὸς Σπαρ …

Aesop, Fables 416b: … τῆς γλώττης, τὰ γράμματα, καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσι τὸν Ἴτυν, καὶ ὡς ἐγενόμεθα ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ὄρνιθες.“ Οί δὲ μόλις μὲν αὐτὰς ήξίωσαν καὶ λόγον, τῆς ἀδολεσχίας μισήσαντες· ἐπεὶ δὲ ήξίωσαν· “ἀλλʼ ἡμῶν μὲν ἕνεκεν, ὧ αὗταί, κἄν εἰς τὴν ἐρημίαν ἀφ …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.108: … γάλων ἀγαθῶν αὐτοῖς εὑρετὴν γεγενημένον, παρεκάλεσάν τε δοῦναι καὶ τοῖς ἡγουμένοις αὐτῶν ἀναγνῶναι τὸν νόμον, ἠξίωσάν τε πάντες ὅ τε ἱερεὺς καὶ τῶν ἑρμηνέων οἱ πρεσβύτεροι καὶ τοῦ πολιτεύματος οἱ προεστηκότες, ἐπεὶ καλῶς τὰ τῆς …

All forms of ἀξιόω (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.