μετρεῖ (metrei)

μετρεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of μετρέω, meaning “measure”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative or 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 402 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Lucian of Samosata, Nigrinus 15: ὅστις δὲ πλούτου ἐρᾷ καὶ χρυσῷ κεκήληται καὶ πορφύρᾳ καὶ δυναστείᾳ μετρεῖ τὸ εὔδαιμον, ἄγευστος μὲν ἐλευθερίας, ἀπείρατος δὲ παρρησίας, ἀθέατος δὲ ἀληθείας, κολακείᾳ τὰ πάντα καὶ δουλ …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 6·2: … άντα φθαρτά, πάντα μικρὸν ὕστερον οὐκ ἐσόμενα. ἡ τούτων ἔννοια παραμυθία ἔστω τοῦ συμβεβηκότος. μὴ καθʼ ἑαυτὸ μέτρει τὸ πάθος, ἀφόρητον γὰρ οὕτω φανεῖταί σοι· ἀλλὰ τοῖς ἀνθρωπίνοις πᾶσι συγκρίνουσα, ἐντεῦθεν εὑρήσεις αὐτοῦ τὴν …

All forms of μετρέω (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.