μάθετε (mathete)

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

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.90.1: ‘καὶ τὰ μὲν ἐς τὰς ἐμὰς διαβολὰς τοιαῦτα ξυνέβη· περὶ δὲ ὧν ὑμῖν τε βουλευτέον καὶ ἐμοί, εἴ τι πλέον οἶδα, ἐσηγητέον, μάθετε ἤδη.

Julian, Emperor of Rome, Κατὰ Γαλιλαίων 16: Ἀλλ’ ἆρα μὴ τοῦτο ὄναρ ἐστὶν ἐννοήσοντες αὐτὸ μαθέτε. θεοὺς ὀνομάζει Πλάτων τοὺς ἐμφανεῖς, ἥλιον καὶ σελήνην, ἄστρα καὶ οὐρανόν, ἀλλ’ οὗτοι τῶν ἀφανῶν εἰσιν εἰκόν …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 277: … αῖνον, ἀλαζονείαν δὲ πᾶσαν καὶ αὐθάδειαν ὑπερορίζει, καὶ τὸ ὅλον, μαθητὴν τοῦ Κυρίου καθίστησι, τοῦ εἰπόντος· Μάθετε ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ, ὅτι πρᾶός εἰμι καὶ ταπεινὸς τῇ καρδίᾳ. τῷ ὄντι γάρ, φίλτατε παίδων, μόνον περισπούδαστον καὶ ἐπαινε …

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.