λαβέ (labe)

λαβέ is an Ancient Greek form of λαμβάνω, meaning “to take, seize, receive”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 323 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.76: ὧς ηὔδα· Κύπριν δʼ ἐνεοστασίη λάβε μύθων.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.5.88: … · μανίαν γὰρ ἐμφαίνει. φρόνησιν ἀγάπα. περὶ θεῶν λέγε, ὡς εἰσίν. ἀνάξιον ἄνδρα μὴ ἐπαίνει διὰ πλοῦτον. πείσας λαβέ, μὴ βιασάμενος. ὅ τι ἂν ἀγαθὸν πράττῃς, εἰς θεοὺς ἀνάπεμπε. ἐφόδιον ἀπὸ νεότητος εἰς γῆρας ἀναλάμβανε σοφίαν· …

Euripides, Medea 1244: ἄγ’, ὦ τάλαινα χεὶρ ἐμή, λαβὲ ξίφος,

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.