θεάσασθαι (theasasthai)

θεάσασθαι is an Ancient Greek form of θεάω, meaning “look at, behold”.

It can also be a form of θεάομαι, “look at, watch, behold”. It is the aorist middle/passive infinitive.

Found 144 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.8.101: … ς οἰκίαν ἀφικόμενον τῶν θεραπόντων τινὶ κελεῦσαι μηνῦσαι ὅτι παρείη, πρὸς αὐτὸν Ἀνάχαρσις, καὶ βούλοιτο αὐτὸν θεάσασθαι, ξένος τε, εἰ οἷόν τε, γενέσθαι.

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 7.5.2: … οίχων περιθεόντων, ὡς οἱ Κυρηναϊκοὶ λέγουσιν· ἀλλὰ καὶ στάδια ταύταις καὶ θέατρα ποιεῖται· καὶ τὸ μετὰ πολλῶν θεάσασθαί τι καὶ ἀκοῦσαι ἐπιτερπέστερόν ἐστι καὶ σεμνότερον, οὐκ ἀκρασίας δήπου καὶ ἡδυπαθείας ἀλλʼ ἐλευθερίου διατριβῆ …

All forms of θεάω (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.