στραφείς (strapheis)

στραφείς is an Ancient Greek form of στρέφω, meaning “turn, twist”. It is the aorist passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Titus Flamininus 15.5: … ν, ὡς εἶδον αὑτὸν, ἀπὸ τοῦ τείχους ἀνακαλούντων καὶ χεῖρας ὀρεγόντων καὶ δεομένων, τότε μὲν οὐδὲν εἰπών, ἀλλὰ στραφεὶς καὶ δακρύσας ἀπῆλθεν, ὕστερον δὲ διαλεχθεὶς τῷ Μανίῳ καὶ καταπαύσας τὸν θυμὸν αὐτοῦ διεπράξατο τοῖς Αἰτωλοῖς …

Aesop, Fables 230: … υάττετο τῇ τε τῶν ποδῶν ταχυτῆτι καὶ τῇ ἰδίᾳ ἰσχύϊ, καὶ ἐδόκει φεύγειν τὸν λύκον διʼ οἰκείαν δῆθεν ἀσθένειαν. Στραφεὶς οὖν ὁ λύκος ἔφησε πρὸς τὸν κύνα· „οὐ σὲ δέδοικα, ἀλλὰ τὴν τοῦ σοῦ δεσπότου καταδρομήν.“ Ὁ μῦθος οὗτος δηλοῖ, …

All forms of στρέφω (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.