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πολεμεῖ (polemei)

πολεμεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of πολεμέω, meaning “make war”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative or 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis 15: … εῖν τὰ μικρότατα τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν πλημμελημάτων ἐλέγχοντι. καθάπερ γὰρ ὁ Σωκράτης; ἑστιώμενος ἐν Καλλίου τῷ μύρῳ πολεμεῖ μόνον, ὀρχήσεις δὲ παίδων καὶ κυβιστήσεις καὶ φιλήματα καὶ γελωτοποιοὺς ὁρῶν ἀνέχεται καὶ σύ μοι δοκεῖς ὁμοίω …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume V 16.30.6: ὁ σκοπός· ἀψύχοις εἰκόσι μὴ πολέμει.

All forms of πολεμέω (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.