φιλεῖσθαι (phileisthai)

φιλεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of φιλέω, meaning “love, like, kiss; be accustomed”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 87 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus 3.3: … οσήκουσαν ἐξέπεσεν. οὕτω τὸν μέν οὐδὲ πάσχοντες κακῶς ἐδύναντο μισεῖν οἱ πολῖται, τῷ δὲ περιῆν θαυμαζομένῳ μὴ φιλεῖσθαι.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 41.54.1: … ερος, Καῖσαρ δὲ καὶ πρῶτος πάντων εἶναι ἐπεθύμει, καὶ ὁ μὲν παρʼ ἑκόντων τε τιμᾶσθαι καὶ ἐθελόντων προστατεῖν φιλεῖσθαί τε ἐσπούδαζε, τῷ δὲ οὐδὲν ἔμελεν εἰ καὶ ἀκόντων ἄρχοι καὶ μισοῦσιν ἐπιτάσσοι,

All forms of φιλέω (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.