ᾄδουσιν (adousin)

ᾄδουσιν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀείδω, meaning “sing”. It is the present active participle dative plural masculine.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute 2.2: … ὑπὸ τῶν μελῶν, ὥστε τοῖς ὅπλοις ᾄξας ἐπιβαλεῖν τὰς χεῖρας ἐγγὺς παρακειμένοις καὶ μαρτυρῆσαι τοῖς Σπαρτιάταις ᾄδουσιν ἕρπει γὰρ ἄντα τῶ σιδάρω τὸ καλῶς κιθαρίσδειν. ἦν δὲ καὶ Ἀπελλῆς ὁ ζωγράφος καὶ Λύσιππος ὁ πλάστης κατʼ Ἀλέξα …

Plutarch, De fraterno amore 4: … ίων γεγονέναι μέγα καὶ σεμνὸν ἡγούμενος. ἀλλʼ οἵ γε ἄλλοι πάντες,, εἰ καὶ μὴ φρονοῦσιν οὕτω, λέγουσι γοῦν καὶ ᾅδουσιν, ὡς γονεῦσι τιμὴν μετὰ θεοὺς πρώτην καὶ μεγίστην ἥ τε φύσις ὅ τε τὴν φύσιν σῴζων νόμος ἀπέδωκε· καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν …

New Testament, Revelation 5.9: καὶ ᾁδουσιν ᾠδὴν καινὴν λέγοντες Ἄξιος εἶ λαβεῖν τὸ βιβλίον καὶ ἀνοῖξαι τὰς σφραγῖδας αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐσφάγης καὶ ἠγόρασας τῷ θεῷ ἐν τῷ αἵματί σου ἐκ πάσης φυλῆς καὶ γλώσσης καὶ λαοῦ καὶ ἔθνους,

All forms of ἀείδω (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.