πέτεσθαι (petesthai)

πέτεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of πέτομαι, meaning “fly”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.81: … ἀληθές, ὡς τῷ ἵπτασθαι τὴν γῆν τὸ εἶναι τὴν γῆν. ἀληθεῖ μέντοι ψεῦδος οὐκ ἀκολουθεῖ· τῷ γὰρ εἶναι τὴν γῆν τὸ πέτεσθαι τὴν γῆν οὐκ ἀκολουθεῖ.

All forms of πέτομαι (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.