εἰρῆσθαι (eiresthai)

εἰρῆσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐρῶ, meaning “I will say, will speak (future of λέγω)”. It is the perfect middle/passive infinitive.

It can also be a form of εἰρέω, “say”.

Found 260 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.54.3: … ρώποις μὴ λοιμὸν ὠνομάσθαι ἐν τῷ ἔπει ὑπὸ τῶν παλαιῶν, ἀλλὰ λιμόν, ἐνίκησε δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος εἰκότως λοιμὸν εἰρῆσθαι· οἱ γὰρ ἄνθρωποι πρὸς ἃ ἔπασχον τὴν μνήμην ἐποιοῦντο. ἢν δέ γε οἶμαί ποτε ἄλλος πόλεμος καταλάβῃ Δωρικὸς τοῦδ …

Plato, Sophist 222: … ν ἄγριον, εἴτε ἥμερον μὲν λέγεις αὖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἀνθρώπων δὲ μηδεμίαν ἡγῇ θήραν· τούτων ὁπότερʼ ἂν ἡγῇ φίλον εἰρῆσθαί σοι, τοῦτο ἡμῖν διόρισον. ἀλλʼ ἡμᾶς τε ἥμερον, ὦ ξένε, ἡγοῦμαι ζῷον, θήραν τε ἀνθρώπων εἶναι λέγω. διττὴν τοί …

Hippocrates, De diaeta in morbis acutis 16·2: … οὕτω γὰρ καὶ ἃ φιλέει βλάπτειν, ἥκιστα ἂν βλάπτοι, καὶ ἃ δεῖται προσωφελέειν, προσωφελοίη ἄν. εν κεφαλαίῳ δʼ εἴρησθαι, αἱ ἀπὸ ὀξέος ὀξύτητες πικροχόλοισι μᾶλλον ἢ μελαγχολικοῖσι ξυμφέρουσι· τὰ μὲν γὰρ πικρὰ διαλύεται καὶ ἐκφλεγ …

All forms of ἐρῶ (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.