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σφαλείς (sphaleis)

σφαλείς is an Ancient Greek form of σφάλλω, meaning “trip up, make fall”. It is the passive participle nominative singular feminine or passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Ion 1523: ὅρα σύ, μῆτερ· μὴ σφαλεῖσʼ ἃ παρθένοις

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 725: εἴπερ σφαλείς γε δεῦρο σωθήσῃ πάλιν.

Euripides, Orestes 1558: κενὴν ἀκούσας βάξιν, ἣν φόβῳ σφαλεὶς

All forms of σφάλλω (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.