μεθεῖναι (metheinai)

μεθεῖναι is an Ancient Greek form of μεθίημι, meaning “let go, release; give up”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 590: τολμᾷς μεθεῖναι καρδίας μέγαν χόλον.

Plato, Philebus 50: … ένης ἡδονῆς λύπαις; νῦν οὖν λέγε πότερα ἀφίης με ἢ μέσας ποιήσεις νύκτας; εἰπὼν δὲ σμικρὰ οἶμαί σου τεύξεσθαι μεθεῖναί με· τούτων γὰρ ἁπάντων αὔριον ἐθελήσω σοι λόγον δοῦναι, τὰ νῦν δὲ ἐπὶ τὰ λοιπὰ βούλομαι στέλλεσθαι πρὸς τὴν κ …

All forms of μεθίημι (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.