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διηγεῖσθαι (diegeisthai)

διηγεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of διηγέομαι, meaning “relate in detail, describe”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 72 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.47: … οιρεῖν αὐτοῦ τῶν δογμάτων τὴν περὶ τοῦ βίου συναγωγήν· γλαῦκα γὰρ εἰς Ἀθήνας, φασίν, εἰ δέῃ σοι τὰ κατʼ εἶδος διηγεῖσθαι.

All forms of διηγέομαι (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.