λοιδορεῖσθαι (loidoreisthai)

λοιδορεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of λοιδορέω, meaning “abuse, revile”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.1.18: … εἰπών τε μέγας Διογένης, ἀπέδωκεν αὐτῷ. τριῶν ἔφη δεῖν παιδείᾳ, φύσεως, μαθήσεως, ἀσκήσεως. ἀκούσας ὑπό τινος λοιδορεῖσθαι, ἀπόντα με, ἔφη, καὶ μαστιγούτω. τὸ κάλλος παντὸς ἔλεγεν ἐπιστολίου συστατικώτερον.

Plutarch, Alcibiades 3.1: … ούντων τινὰ κτείνειεν ἐν τῇ Σιβυρτίου παλαίστρᾳ ξύλῳ πατάξας. ἀλλὰ τούτοις μὲν οὐκ ἄξιον ἴσως πιστεύειν, ἅ γε λοιδορεῖσθαί τις αὐτῷ διʼ ἔχθραν ὁμολογῶν εἶπεν.

All forms of λοιδορέω (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.