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σπουδάζειν (spoudazein)

σπουδάζειν is an Ancient Greek form of σπουδάζω, meaning “be eager, hurry; be serious”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 80 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 2.31: τοῖς δὲ φίλοις παρήγγειλε μὴ χρήμασιν, ἀνδρείᾳ δὲ καὶ ἀρετῇ σπουδάζειν πλουτεῖν.

All forms of σπουδάζω (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.