καταψεύδεσθαι (katapseudesthai)

καταψεύδεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of καταψεύδομαι, meaning “lie about, slander”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Antony 59.1: ἀλλὰ τούτων μὲν ἐδόκει τὰ πλεῖστα καταψεύδεσθαι Καλουΐσιος· οἱ δὲ φίλοι τοῦ Ἀντωνίου περιϊόντες ἐν Ῥώμῃ τὸν δῆμον ἱκέτευον, ἕνα δὲ ἐξ αὑτῶν ἔπεμψαν Γεμίνιον δεόμενοι τοῦ Ἀντωνίου μὴ περιϊδεῖν αὑτὸν ἀποψηφισθέντα τῆς ἀρχῆς καὶ πολέμιον Ῥωμαίων ἀναγορευθέντα.

Demosthenes, On Halonnesus 33: περὶ δὲ τῶν ὑποσχέσεων ὧν ὑμῖν διατελεῖ ὑπισχνούμενος ὡς μεγάλα ὑμᾶς εὐεργετήσων, καταψεύδεσθαί μέ φησιν αὐτοῦ διαβάλλοντα πρὸς τοὺς Ἕλληνας· οὐδὲν γὰρ ὑμῖν πώποτέ φησιν ὑπεσχῆσθαι. οὕτως ἀναιδής ἐστιν ὁ ἐ …

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.