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κατεστρέψατο (katestrepsato)

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

Found 65 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus 4.2: … ἐθέλοντας εἶναι καὶ πολίτας, λῃστὰς δὲ καὶ κακούργους οὐκ ἀπέκτεινεν, ἀλλʼ ἔθνη προσηγάγετο πολέμῳ καὶ πόλεις κατεστρέψατο καὶ βασιλεῖς ἐθριάμβευσε καὶ ἡγεμόνας.

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.