μάθε (mathe)

μάθε is an Ancient Greek form of μανθάνω, meaning “learn, understand”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist active imperative.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 657: κείνου δʼ ἀκούσας πρῶτα τοὺς λόγους μάθε,

Plato, Laws 9.854: … ῖς ἀνθρώποις ἀδικημάτων, περιφερόμενος ἀλιτηριώδης, ὃν εὐλαβεῖσθαι χρεὼν παντὶ σθένει· τίς δʼ ἐστὶν εὐλάβεια, μαθέ. ὅταν σοι προσπίπτῃ τι τῶν τοιούτων δογμάτων, ἴθι ἐπὶ τὰς ἀποδιοπομπήσεις, ἴθι ἐπὶ θεῶν ἀποτροπαίων ἱερὰ ἱκέτ …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 43: Μάθε σὺ ὁ μονάζων καὶ πιστὸς ἄνθρωπος, καὶ τῆς εὐσεβείας ἐργάτης, καὶ διδάχθητι εὐαγγελικὴν πολιτείαν, σώματος δου …

All forms of μανθάνω (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.