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ὠθούμενοι (othoumenoi)

ὠθούμενοι is an Ancient Greek form of ὠθέω, meaning “push, thrust”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Publicola 5.2: … ν ἀφελέσθαι τὰς ἐπιστολάς. οἱ δʼ ἠμύνοντο, καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια περιβαλόντες αὐτῶν τοῖς τραχήλοις ὑπὸ βίας καὶ μόλις ὠθούμενοι καὶ ὠθοῦντες διὰ τῶν στενωπῶν εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν ἐνέβαλον. τὰ δʼ αὐτὰ καὶ περὶ τὴν ἔπαυλιν ἅμα τὴν βασιλικὴν ἐγίν …

Lucian of Samosata, Necyomantia 12: … ον καὶ ἡλίκον ἐφύσα τότε, ἡνίκα πολλοὶ μὲν ἕωθεν ἐπὶ τῶν πυλώνων παρειστήκεσαν τὴν πρόοδον αὐτοῦ περιμένοντες ὠθούμενοί τε καὶ ἀποκλειόμενοι πρὸς τῶν οἰκετῶν· ὁ δὲ μόλις ἄν ποτε ἀνατείλας αὐτοῖς πορφυροῦς τις ἢ περίχρυσος ἢ διαπο …

All forms of ὠθέω (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.