ὀφείλοντας (opheilontas)

ὀφείλοντας is an Ancient Greek form of ὀφείλω, meaning “owe, ought”. It is the present active participle accusative plural masculine.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa 4.3: … ε τις ἐργάτην γῆς βούλοιτο ποιεῖν τὸν υἱὸν εἴτε ναυπηγὸν ἢ χαλκέα διδάσκειν ἢ αὐλητήν, ὥσπερ οὐ πρός ἓν τέλος ὀφείλοντας ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἄγεσθαι καὶ συνεπιστρέφεσθαι τοῖς ἤθεσιν, ἀλλʼ οἷον εἰς ναῦν ἐπιβάτας ἕτερον ἐξ ἑτέρας ἥκοντα χρείας …

Aeschines, Against Timarchus 97: … ις γυναῖκα ἀμόργινα ἐπισταμένην ἐργάζεσθαι καὶ ἔργα λεπτὰ εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν ἐκφέρουσαν, καὶ ἄνδρα ποικιλτήν, καὶ ὀφείλοντάς τινας αὐτῷ ἀργύριον, καὶ ἔπιπλα.

All forms of ὀφείλω (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.