διαλέγεσθαι (dialegesthai)

διαλέγεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of διαλέγω, meaning “converse; pick out”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 284 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.13.123: Τί τὸ καλόν. Περὶ διδασκαλίας. Περὶ τοῦ διαλέγεσθαι. Περὶ κρίσεως. Περὶ τοῦ ὄντος. Περὶ ἀριθμοῦ. Περὶ ἐπιμελείας. Περὶ τοῦ ἐργάζεσθαι. Περὶ φιλοκερδοῦς. Περὶ ἀλα …

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.49: ἐπεὶ δʼ ἔτυχές ποτε καὶ ἐμοῦ δεηθεὶς προθύμως ἐξαγγεῖλαι πρὸς Μήδους τὰ παρὰ Κυαξάρου, ἐλογιζόμην, εἰ ταῦτα προθύμως σοι συλλάβοιμι, ὡς οἰκεῖός τέ σοι ἐσοίμην καὶ ἐξέσοιτό μοι διαλέγεσθαί σοι ὁπόσον χρόνον βουλοίμην. καὶ ἐκεῖνα μὲν δὴ ἐπράχθη ὥστε σε ἐπαινεῖν.

All forms of διαλέγω (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.