αἱροῦσι (hairousi)

αἱροῦσι is an Ancient Greek form of αἱρέω, meaning “to take, seize, capture; (mid.) choose”. It is the present active participle dative plural masculine.

It can also be a form of αἴρω, “lift, raise, take up”. It is the present active participle dative plural masculine.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.30.1: οἱ δ’ ἐν ταῖς ἑκατὸν ναυσὶν Ἀθηναῖοι ἔτι ὄντες περὶ Πελοπόννησον Σόλλιόν τε Κορινθίων πόλισμα αἱροῦσι καὶ παραδιδόασι Παλαιρεῦσιν Ἀκαρνάνων μόνοις τὴν γῆν καὶ πόλιν νέμεσθαι· καὶ Ἀστακόν, ἧς Εὔαρχος ἐτυράννει, λ …

Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno 4: … δὲ τῶν μαστιγιῶν τούτων καὶ βαρβάρων χρέα πρὶν ἢ συλλαβεῖν τίκτει· διδόντες γὰρ εὐθὺς ἀπαιτοῦσι καὶ τιθέντες αἴρουσι καὶ δανείζουσιν ὃ λαμβάνουσιν ὑπὲρ τοῦ δανεῖσαι.

Procopius, De Bellis 4.15.47: τοῖς δὲ στρατιώταις ἐδίδου τὸ χαράκωμα τῶν ἐναντίων διαρπάσασθαι, αἱροῦσί τε αὐτὸ ἔρημον ἀνδρῶν. ἐνταῦθα εὕρηνται πολλὰ μὲν χρήματα, πολλαὶ δὲ γυναῖκες, ὧν δὴ ἕνεκα ὁ πόλεμος κατέστη ὅδε. ταῦτα Βελισάριος διαπεπραγμένος ἐς Καρχηδόνα ἀπήλαυνε.

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.