λῇς (les)

λῇς is an Ancient Greek form of λάω, meaning “seize, hold; gripping”. It is the 2nd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.11: τῶνδέ γε ὧν ἁμὲς νῦν ὧδε λέγομες ἀλλʼ ἀεὶ τάδʼ ἦν . . . αἰ πὸτ ἀριθμόν τις περισσόν, αἰ δὲ λῇς, πὸτ ἄρτιον, ποτθέμειν λῇ ψᾶφον ἢ καὶ τᾶν ὑπαρχουσᾶν λαβεῖν, ἦ δοκεῖ κά τοί γʼ ἔθʼ ωὑτὸς εἶμεν;—οὐκ ἐμίν γα κ …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 5.1.2·2: … μένων δὲ τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ λεγόντων εὖ μὲν ἀλλʼ οὐδὲν πρὸς τὴν Παρμένοντος ὗν, ἕνα λαβόντα δελφάκιον ὑπὸ μάλης λης, προελθεῖν· ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ τῆς ἀληθινῆς φωνῆς ἀκούοντες ὑπεφθέγγοντο τί οὖν αὕτη πρὸς τὴν Παρμένοντος ὗν; ἀφεῖνα …

Bion of Phlossa, Epithalamium Achillis et Deidameiae 1: Λῇς νύ τί μοι Λυκίδα Σικελὸν μέλος ἁδὺ λιγαίνειν,

All forms of λάω (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.