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λῃτουργεῖν (letourgein)

λῃτουργεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of λειτουργέω, meaning “serve public offices at one's own cost”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 29.5: … ἡμέρας. τὴν δʼ ἄλλην πολιτείαν ἐπιτρέψαι πᾶσαν Ἀθηναίων τοῖς δυνατωτάτοις καὶ τοῖς σώμασιν καὶ τοῖς χρήμασιν λῃτουργεῖν, μὴ ἔλαττον ἢ πεντακισχιλίοις, ἕως ἂν ὁ πόλεμος ᾖ. κυρίους δʼ εἶναι τούτους καὶ συνθήκας συντίθεσθαι πρὸς οὓς …

All forms of λειτουργέω (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.