φέρεται (pheretai)

φέρεται is an Ancient Greek form of φέρω, meaning “to carry, bring, bear”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 310 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.934: ταρσὸν ἐφεὶς πνοιῇ φέρεται ταχύς, οὐδὲ τινάσσει

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.1.35: … ην ἀπεφήνατο δόξαν· ἕν τι μάτευε σοφόν, ἕν τι κεδνὸν αἱροῦ· δήσεις γὰρ ἀνδρῶν κωτίλων γλώσσας ἀπεραντολόγους. Φέρεται δὲ καὶ ἀποφθέγματα αὐτοῦ τάδε· πρεσβύτατον τῶν ὄντων θεός· ἀγένητον γάρ. κάλλιστον κόσμος· ποίημα γὰρ θεοῦ. μ …

Plutarch, Marcus Cato 20.8: ἐφʼ ᾧ καὶ Παῦλος ὁ στρατηγὸς ἠγάσθη τὸ μειράκιον, καὶ Κάτωνος αὐτοῦ φέρεταί τις ἐπιστολὴ πρός τὸν υἱόν ὑπερφυῶς ἐπαινοῦντος τὴν περὶ τὸ ξίφος φιλοτιμίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ σπουδήν. ὕστερον δὲ κα …

All forms of φέρω (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.