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λάμβανε (lambane)

λάμβανε is an Ancient Greek form of λαμβάνω, meaning “to take, seize, receive”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 26.9: τῆς δὲ κλειδὸς αὐτῷ κατεαγείσης ἐν πολέμῳ καὶ τοῦ θεραπεύοντος ἰατροῦ πάντως τι καθʼ ἡμέραν αἰτοῦντος, λάμβανε ἔφη ὅσα βούλει· τὴν γὰρ κλεῖν ἔχεις

Pindar, Isthmean 5.62: λάμβανέ οἱ στέφανον, φέρε δʼ εὔμαλλον μίτραν,

All forms of λαμβάνω (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.