πιθοῦ (pithou)

πιθοῦ is an Ancient Greek form of πείθω, meaning “to persuade; (mid.) obey, trust”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist middle imperative.

It can also be a form of πίθος, “storage jar”.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 309: ποῖ τρέψεταί τις; ἀλλ’ ἐμοὶ πιθοῦ, Κύκλωψ·

Plutarch, Galba 16.4: ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ἡσίοδος ἀρχομένου τε πίθου καὶ λήγοντος κορέσασθαι φησὶ δεῖν, ὁ δὲ Οὐίνιος ὁρῶν ἀσθενῆ καὶ γέροντα τὸν Γάλβαν ἐνεπίμπλατο τῆς τύχης, ὡς ἅμα μὲν ἀρχομένης, ἅμα δὲ φθινούσης.

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.