καταστῆσαι (katastesai)

καταστῆσαι is an Ancient Greek form of καθίστημι, meaning “set down, appoint; (intrans.) be established, become”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 192 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.59.3: ὁ δὲ ὁρῶν αὐτοὺς πρὸς τὰ παρόντα χαλεπαίνοντας καὶ πάντα ποιοῦντας ἅπερ αὐτὸς ἤλπιζε, ξύλλογον ποιήσας (ἔτι δ’ ἐστρατήγει) ἐβούλετο θαρσῦναί τε καὶ ἀπαγαγὼν τὸ ὀργιζόμενον τῆς γνώμης πρὸς τὸ ἠπιώτερον καὶ ἀδεέστερον καταστῆσαι· παρελθὼν δὲ ἔλεξε τοιάδε.

Euripides, Andromache 270: ἄκη βροτοῖσι θεῶν καταστῆσαί τινα·

Aristophanes, Birds 841: φύλακας κατάστησαι, τὸ πῦρ ἔγκρυπτʼ ἀεί,

All forms of καθίστημι (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.