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πυθοίμην (pythoimen)

πυθοίμην is an Ancient Greek form of πυνθάνομαι, meaning “to learn by inquiry, hear of”. It is the 1st person singular aorist middle optative.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 25.49: ᾧ κε τὸ μὲν εἴποιμι, τὸ δʼ ἐκ φαμένοιο πυθοίμην.

All forms of πυνθάνομαι (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.