αἱρεθῆναι (hairethenai)

αἱρεθῆναι is an Ancient Greek form of αἱρέω, meaning “to take, seize, capture; (mid.) choose”. It is the aorist passive infinitive.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aristides 4.4: … νους τῶν δημοσίων ὑπερεπαινεῖν τὸν Ἀριστείδην καὶ δεξιοῦσθαι τὸν δῆμον ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ, σπουδάζοντας ἄρχοντα πάλιν αἱρεθῆναι. μελλόντων δὲ χειροτονεῖν ἐπετίμησε τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις· ὅτε μὲν γάρ, ἔφη, πιστῶς καὶ καλῶς ὑμῖν ἦρξα, προὐπηλακίσ …

Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.1.4: … μεγέθει μέντοι καὶ κατὰ ἀλκὴν καὶ κάλλος προεἶχεν ὁ Πελασγὸς καὶ γνώμην ὑπὲρ τοὺς ἄλλους ἦν, καὶ τούτων ἕνεκα αἱρεθῆναί μοι δοκεῖ βασιλεύειν ὑπʼ αὐτῶν. πεποίηται δὲ καὶ Ἀσίῳ τοιάδε ἐς αὐτόν· Ἀντίθεον δὲ Πελασγὸν ἐν ὑψικόμοισιν ὄρ …

All forms of αἱρέω (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.