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πεπεῖσθαι (pepeisthai)

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

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.40.2: τοὺς γὰρ Βοιωτοὺς ᾤοντο πεπεῖσθαι ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων τό τε Πάνακτον καθελεῖν καὶ ἐς τὰς Ἀθηναίων σπονδὰς ἐσιέναι, τούς τε Ἀθηναίους εἰδέναι ταῦτ …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 308: … ς δυνάμεως πολυτελέστερα ἡμᾶς ἔχῃς εὐεργετεῖν. ὅτι γὰρ μία ἡμῖν εὐχὴ ἡ παντὸς τοῦ οἴκου ὑμῶν σωτηρία, ἡγοῦμαι πεπεῖσθαί σε.

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.