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καταλαβέσθαι (katalabesthai)

καταλαβέσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of καταλαμβάνω, meaning “seize, overtake, find”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Agis and Cleomenes Cleomenes.23.4: ἀποσχὼν δʼ οὐ πολὺ Παντέα μὲν ἔχοντα δύο τάγματα τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων ἀπέστειλε, καταλαβέσθαι κελεύσας μεσοπύργιον ὃ τῶν τειχῶν ἐρημότατον εἶναι τοῖς Μεγαλοπολίταις ἐπυνθάνετο, τῇ δὲ ἄλλῃ δυνάμει σχολαίω …

All forms of καταλαμβάνω (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.