μέμψασθαι (mempsasthai)

μέμψασθαι is an Ancient Greek form of μέμφομαι, meaning “blame”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.37.4: … ἀπιστοῦντες τῇ ἐξ αὑτῶν ξυνέσει ἀμαθέστεροι μὲν τῶν νόμων ἀξιοῦσιν εἶναι, ἀδυνατώτεροι δὲ τοῦ καλῶς εἰπόντος μέμψασθαι λόγον, κριταὶ δὲ ὄντες ἀπὸ τοῦ ἴσου μᾶλλον ἢ ἀγωνισταὶ ὀρθοῦνται τὰ πλείω.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum 1.15: … ειτʼ οὐ μόνος οὐδὲ πρῶτος ἐγὼ φανήσομαι περὶ Πλάτωνος ἐπιχειρήσας τι λέγειν. οὐδʼ ἄν τις ἔχοι κατʼ αὐτὸ τοῦτο μέμψασθαί με τὸ μέρος, ὅτι τὸν ἐπιφανέστατον τῶν φιλοσόφων κ αὶ πλείοσιν ἢ δώδεκα γενεαῖς ἐμαυτοῦ πρεσβύτερον ἐξετάζειν …

All forms of μέμφομαι (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.