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ὑπέσχοντο (hypeschonto)

ὑπέσχοντο is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπισχνέομαι, meaning “promise, undertake”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist middle indicative.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.101.2: οἱ δὲ ὑπέσχοντο μὲν κρύφα τῶν Ἀθηναίων καὶ ἔμελλον, διεκωλύθησαν δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ γενομένου σεισμοῦ, ἐν ᾧ καὶ οἱ Εἵλωτες αὐτοῖς καὶ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 40.1.2: … το. καὶ ἐπειδὴ πλόιμα ἐγένετο, ἐς τὴν Βρεττανίαν αὖθις ἐπεραιώθη, πρόφασιν μὲν ὅτι μὴ πάντας τοὺς ὁμήρους οὓς ὑπέσχοντό οἱ ἐπεπόμφεσαν, νομίζοντες αὐτόν, ὅτι διὰ κενῆς τότε ἀνεχώρησε, μηκέτʼ αὖθίς σφων πειράσειν, ποιησάμενος, ἔργ …

All forms of ὑπισχνέομαι (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.