διηγεῖτο (diegeito)

διηγεῖτο is an Ancient Greek form of διηγέομαι, meaning “relate in detail, describe”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive optative.

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 25.3: … νομένης παρελθὼν τήν τε νίκην ἀπήγγειλε τοῦ Καμίλλου πρότερον οὐ πυθομένοις, καὶ τὰ δοκοῦντα τοῖς στρατιώταις διηγεῖτο· καὶ παρεκάλει τῷ Καμίλλῳ βεβαιῶσαι τὴν ἀρχήν, ὡς μόνῳ πεισομένων ἐκείνῳ τῶν ἔξω πολιτῶν.

Lucian of Samosata, Toxaris vel amicitia 24: … . εἶτα ἐπεὶ ἐθαύμασα εἰ καλὸς οὗτος καὶ ὡραῖος ὢν ἀνέχεται παροχουμένην τοιαύτην αὐτῷ γυναῖκα, ὁ δείξας αὐτὸν διηγεῖτό μοι τὴν ἀνάγκην τοῦ γάμου ἀκριβῶς εἰδὼς ἕκαστα· Μασσαλιώτης δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ἦν. Μενεκράτει γάρ, ἔφη, τῷ πατρὶ τῆ …

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.