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μετήλλαξε (metellaxe)

μετήλλαξε is an Ancient Greek form of μεταλλάσσω, meaning “change, exchange”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.1.3: … ῖρε εἰπεῖν· τὸν δὲ φάναι, ἀλλὰ μὴ σύ γε, ὅστις ὑπομένεις ζῆν τοιοῦτος ὤν. καὶ τέλος ὑπὸ ἀθυμίας ἑκὼν τὸν βίον μετήλλαξε γηραιὸς ὤν. καὶ ἔστιν ἡμῶν εἰς αὐτόν· ἀλλʼ εἰ μὴ Σπεύσιππον ἐμάνθανον ὧδε θανεῖσθαι, οὐκ ἂν ἔπεισέ μέ τις τόδ …

All forms of μεταλλάσσω (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.