αἴρεσθαι (airesthai)

αἴρεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of αἴρω, meaning “lift, raise, take up”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 313: καὶ μήποτʼ ἐς γῆν ἐχθρὸν αἴρεσθαι δόρυ

Aristophanes, Frogs 595a: αὖθις αἴρεσθαί σʼ ἀνάγκη

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo 2.3: … ἀριθμὸς ἐπίκαιρος ᾖ, ὁκοῖον γλῶσσα τρηχείη καὶ ξηρὴ καὶ μἕλαινα· ἥδε τοι γὰρ τὰ εἴσω πάντα σημαίνει· ξυντεκμ αίρεσθαι δὲ ἐπὶ πᾶσι τὴν δύναμιν, εἰ μὴ προαπηύδηκε ἐκ τῆς νούσου πόνων τε καὶ διαίτης. οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ ἐνδείῃ μοῦνον, ἀ …

All forms of αἴρω (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.