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πλανᾶται (planatai)

πλανᾶται is an Ancient Greek form of πλανάω, meaning “lead astray”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive subjunctive.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 19.2: … εριέπων καὶ θεραπεύων διατετέλεκε, καὶ νῦν οὐ βοηθῶν τοῖς ἐνταῦθα μᾶλλον Ἕλλησιν ἢ φεύγων τοὺς ἐκεῖ πολεμίους πλανᾶται περὶ τὴν Ἰταλίαν, ἐπαγγελλόμενος ἡμῖν τὴν ἡγεμονίαν ἀπὸ ταύτης τῆς δυνάμεως ἣ μέρος μικρὸν αὐτῷ Μακεδονίας οὐ …

Plato, Alcibiades 1 117: … πλανᾶσθαι τὴν ψυχήν; πῶς γὰρ οὔ; τί οὖν; οἶσθα ὅντινα τρόπον ἀναβήσῃ εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν; μὰ Δίʼ οὐκ ἔγωγε. ἦ καὶ πλανᾶταί σου ἡ δόξα περὶ ταῦτα; οὐ δῆτα. τὸ δʼ αἴτιον οἶσθα ἢ ἐγὼ φράσω; φράσον. ὅτι, ὦ φίλε, οὐκ οἴει αὐτὸ ἐπίστασθαι …

All forms of πλανάω (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.