ηὔξατο (euxato)

ηὔξατο is an Ancient Greek form of εὔχομαι, meaning “pray, vow; boast, claim”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle indicative.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 18.6: … ι. πολλῆς δὲ τῆς φυγῆς αὐτῷ περιχεομένης, καὶ μηδενὸς ἀναστρέφειν τολμῶντος, ἀνατείνας εἰς οὐρανὸν τὰς χεῖρας ηὔξατο τῷ Διὶ στῆσαι τὸ στράτευμα καὶ τὰ Ῥωμαίων πράγματα πεσόντα μὴ περιιδεῖν, ἀλλʼ ὀρθῶσαι.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 3.10·2: … ὰ τῇ ἀπολαύσει, ἣ γίνεται πᾶσα διʼ ἁφῆς καὶ ἐν σιτίοις καὶ ἐν ποτοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἀφροδισίοις λεγομένοις. διὸ καὶ ηὔξατό τις ὀψοφάγος ὢν τὸν φάρυγγα αὑτῷ μακρότερον γεράνου γενέσθαι, ὡς ἡδόμενος τῇ ἁφῇ. κοινοτάτη δὴ τῶν αἰσθήσεων …

All forms of εὔχομαι (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.