κρατεῖσθαι (krateisthai)

κρατεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of κρατέω, meaning “rule, be master of, prevail”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.13.2: … ἰσχὺν αὐτοῖς ἀπὸ τούτων εἶναι τῶν χρημάτων τῆς προσόδου, τὰ δὲ πολλὰ τοῦ πολέμου γνώμῃ καὶ χρημάτων περιουσίᾳ κρατεῖσθαι.

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 3.7: … ῆς ἐν τῷ σώματι δυνάμεως, ἡ δὲ κρατεῖται. οὔκουν ἐνδέχεται τροφὴν μὲν εἶναί τι τῷ ζῴῳ προσήκουσαν, οὐ μὴν καὶ κρατεῖσθαί γʼ ὁμοίως πρὸς τῶν ἐν τῷ ζῴῳ ποιοτήτων· τὸ κρατεῖσθαι δʼ ἦν ἀλλοιοῦσθαι. ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ τὰ μὲν ἰσχυρότερα ταῖς δυν …

All forms of κρατέω (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.