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οἴχεται (oichetai)

οἴχεται is an Ancient Greek form of οἴχομαι, meaning “be gone, have gone, depart”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 160 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.12.1: ‘πεπόμφασι δὲ καὶ ἐς Πελοπόννησον πρέσβεις ἐπ’ ἄλλην στρατιάν, καὶ ἐς τὰς ἐν Σικελίᾳ πόλεις Γύλιππος οἴχεται, τὰς μὲν καὶ πείσων ξυμπολεμεῖν ὅσαι νῦν ἡσυχάζουσιν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν καὶ στρατιὰν ἔτι πεζὴν καὶ ναυτικοῦ παρασκευήν, ἢν δύνηται, ἄξων.

Euripides, Andromache 1083: πῶς δ’ οἴχεταί μοι παῖς μόνου παιδὸς μόνος;

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 269·2: … ούσῃ, οὐδὲ καταδέχεσθαι ὅλως, ὅτι τέθνηκεν Ἀρινθαῖος. ἀλλʼ ὅμως πέπονθεν ἃ οὐρανῷ καὶ ἡλίῳ καὶ γῇ συμβήσεται. Οἴχεται καταλύσας λαμπρῶς, μὴ ὑπὸ γήρως κατακαμφθείς, μὴ καθυφείς τι τῆς περιφανείας· μέγας μὲν ἐν τῷ παρόντι βίῳ, μέ …

All forms of οἴχομαι (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.