αἱρεῖται (haireitai)

αἱρεῖται is an Ancient Greek form of αἱρέω, meaning “to take, seize, capture; (mid.) choose”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.82: … ραννικόν. δημοκρατικὸν μὲν οὖν ἐστιν, ἐν αἷς πόλεσι κρατεῖ τὸ πλῆθος καὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τοὺς νόμους διʼ ἑαυτοῦ αἱρεῖται. ἀριστοκρατία δέ ἐστιν, ἐν ᾗ μήθʼ οἱ πλούσιοι μήθʼ οἱ πένητες μήθʼ οἱ ἔνδοξοι ἄρχουσιν, ἀλλʼ οἱ ἄριστοι τῆς π …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.17.84: … λλ’ ὅταν δἰ ἑαυτόν τις καὶ δἰ ἀκρασίαν πυρέττῃ. αἰτιώμεθα τοῦτον) ὣς δὲ καὶ τῆς κακίας ἀκουσίου οὔσης· οὐ γὰρ αἱρεῖταί τις κακὸν ᾗ κακόν, τῇ δὲ περὶ αὐτὸ ἡδονῇ συναπαγόμενος, ἀγαθὸν ὑπολαβών, ληπτὸν ἡγεῖται. ὧν οὕτως ἐχόντων τὸ …

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.