πεισθῆναι (peisthenai)

πεισθῆναι is an Ancient Greek form of πείθω, meaning “to persuade; (mid.) obey, trust”. It is the aorist passive infinitive.

Found 85 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.21.1: … εσιν ἀνεχώρησε πάλιν ἐς τὸ πλέον οὐκέτι προελθών (δι’ ὃ δὴ καὶ ἡ φυγὴ αὐτῷ ἐγένετο ἐκ Σπάρτης δόξαντι χρήμασι πεισθῆναι [τὴν ἀναχώρησιν])·

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1414: Πολύνεικες, ἱκετεύω σε πεισθῆναί τί μοι.

All forms of πείθω (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.