ἀπορῆσαι (aporesai)

ἀπορῆσαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπορέω, meaning “be at a loss”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active optative.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos 39·2: … μὲν ἴσα ταῦτʼ ἀλλήλοις, οὐκ ἄνισα δʼ ἐστὶ ταῦτʼ ἀλλήλοις. ἐπεὶ δέ φησιν εἶναί τι μεῖζον οὐ μὴν ὑπερέχον ἄξιον ἀπορῆσαι πότερον ταῦτʼ ἐφαρμόσει ἀλλήλοις. εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἐφαρμόσει, πῶς μεῖζόν ἐστι θάτερον; εἰ δʼ οὐκ ἐφαρμόσει, πῶς οὐκ …

Demosthenes, Letters 2.11: … προσήκει, καὶ σκοπεῖν μὴ μόνον τὸν διακονήσοντα πρὸς χάριν πάντʼ ἐν τῇ πολιτείᾳ ʽτούτου μὲν γὰρ οὐδέποτʼ ἔστʼ ἀπορῆσαἰ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν ἐπʼ εὐνοίᾳ περὶ ὧν ἂν ἀγνοῆτʼ ἐπιτιμήσοντα.

Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians 15.5: ἔδωκε δʼ αὖ καὶ συσκήνους δύο ἑκατέρῳ προσελέσθαι, οἳ δὴ καὶ Πύθιοι καλοῦνται. ἔδωκε δὲ καὶ πασῶν τῶν συῶν ἀπὸ τόκου χοῖρον λαμβάνειν, ὡς μήποτε ἀπορήσαι βασιλεὺς ἱερῶν, ἤν τι δεηθῇ θεοῖς συμβουλεύσασθαι.

All forms of ἀπορέω (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.