εἷλε (heile)

εἷλε is an Ancient Greek form of αἱρέω, meaning “to take, seize, capture; (mid.) choose”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 276 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.20: εἷλε χόλος· περὶ δʼ αὖ Πολυδεύκεα τύψεν ὁμοκλή.

Plutarch, De Tranquillitate Animi 10: … αυτοὺς ἐνδεεῖς ὄντες οὐδέποτε τοῖς καθʼ ἑαυτοὺς χάριν ἔχουσιν. οὔ μοι τὰ Γύγεω τοῦ πολυχρύσου μέλει· καί οὐδʼ εἷλὲ πώ με ζῆλος, οὐδʼ ἀγαίομαι θεῶν ἔργα, μεγάλης δʼ οὐκ ἐρέω τυραννίδος ἀπόπροθεν γάρ ἐστιν ὀφθαλμῶν ἐμῶν. Θάσιο …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 2.2: … παραχωρεῖν αὐτοὺς ἔλεγον τῷ Δαβὶδ τῆς εἰς τὴν πόλιν εἰσόδου. ὀργισθεὶς δὲ διὰ ταῦτα Δαβὶδ πολιορκίᾳ τὴν πόλιν εἶλε, καὶ τοὺς Ἰεβουσαίους ἐκεῖθεν ὠσάμενος καὶ ἀνοικοδομήσας αὐτὴν εἰς ὄνομα οἰκεῖον πόλιν Δαβὶδ ἐπωνόμασεν, ἐπὶ …

All forms of αἱρέω (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.