ποιήσειεν (poieseien)

ποιήσειεν is an Ancient Greek form of ποιέω, meaning “to make, do, create”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active optative.

Found 98 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.6.1: … οῦ ἀρχῇ πόλεις ἀποστήσειε τῶν Ἀθηναίων διὰ τοὺς φόρους καὶ ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ βασιλεῖ τὴν ξυμμαχίαν τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων ποιήσειεν.

Hyperides, Against Demosthenes frag_9: … κρύοις τοῖς Ἁγνωνίδου προσέχετε τὸν νοῦν, ἐκεῖνο λογιζόμενοι, ὅτι ἀτυχήσαντι μὲν οὗτος δʼ ἂν κλαίων οὐ δίκαια ποιήςειεν, ὥσπερ καὶ οἱ λῃσταὶ οἱ ἐπὶ τοῦ τροχοῦ κλαίοντες, ἐξὸν αὐτοῖς μὴ ἐμβαίνειν εἰς τὸ πλοῖον. οὕτω καὶ Δημοσθένης …

Plato, Letters 7.344: … οὐδʼ ἂν ὁ Λυγκεὺς ἰδεῖν ποιήσειεν τοὺς τοιούτους. ἑνὶ δὲ λόγῳ, τὸν μὴ συγγενῆ τοῦ πράγματος οὔτʼ ἂν εὐμάθεια ποιήσειέν ποτε οὔτε μνήμη— τὴν ἀρχὴν γὰρ ἐν ἀλλοτρίαις ἕξεσιν οὐκ ἐγγίγνεται—ὥστε ὁπόσοι τῶν δικαίων τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὅ …

All forms of ποιέω (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.