εἰλήφεσαν (eilephesan)

εἰλήφεσαν is an Ancient Greek form of λαμβάνω, meaning “to take, seize, receive”. It is the 3rd person plural pluperfect active indicative.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.88.2: … σοῦτον, ἢν ἐπιπλέῃ, ὅτι οὐχ ὑπομενετέον ἐστί, καὶ οἱ στρατιῶται ἐκ πολλοῦ ἐν σφίσιν αὐτοῖς τὴν ἀξίωσιν ταύτην εἰλήφεσαν, μηδένα ὄχλον Ἀθηναῖοι ὄντες Πελοποννησίων νεῶν ὑποχωρεῖν·

Demosthenes, Against Evergus and Mnesibulus 66: ὡς οὖν ἀληθῆ λέγω, καὶ ὅτι τῇ μὲν προτεραίᾳ εἰλήφεσάν μου τὰ ἐνέχυρα, τῇ δʼ ὑστεραίᾳ ἐκομίσαντο τὸ ἀργύριον παρʼ ἐμοῦ (καίτοι πῶς ἄν, εἰ μὴ πεπορισμένον τε ἦν καὶ …

All forms of λαμβάνω (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.