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φοιτᾶν (phoitan)

φοιτᾶν is an Ancient Greek form of φοιτάω, meaning “go to and fro, visit regularly”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 76 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.17.143: … ράννων ἐπαγόμενον Δημήτριον· οὐκ ἂν δὴ οὖν προδοῦναι αὐτὸν Ἀντιγόνῳ τὴν πόλιν, ἀλλὰ διαβολὴν ἀναλαβεῖν ψευδῆ· φοιτᾶν τε πρὸς τὸν Ἀντίγονον καὶ βούλεσθαι ἐλευθερῶσαι τὴν πατρίδα· τοῦ δὲ μὴ εἴκοντος ὑπʼ ἀθυμίας ἀσιτήσαντα ἑπτὰ ἡ …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 9·2: … ν ἄγομεν. σὺ δὲ ἔῤῥωσαί τε, ὥς φασι, καὶ ἅμα πολίτην σεαυτὸν τῆς οἰκουμένης ποιήσας δίκαιος ἂν εἴης καὶ δεῦρο φοιτᾷν ὡς εἰς μέρος τῆς σεαυτοῦ.

All forms of φοιτάω (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.