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κατέστρεψε (katestrepse)

κατέστρεψε is an Ancient Greek form of καταστρέφω, meaning “overturn; (mid.) subdue, conquer”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.9.108: … ων τοὺς λόγους ζητεῖν· οὐ γὰρ ἕνεκα τῶν λόγων τὰ πράγματα συντελεῖσθαι, ἀλλʼ ἕνεκα τῶν πραγμάτων τοὺς λόγους. Κατέστρεψε δὲ βιοὺς ἔτη ἑπτὰ καὶ ἐννενήκοντα.

All forms of καταστρέφω (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.