ἀρετά (areta)

ἀρετά is an Ancient Greek form of ἀρετάω, meaning “thrive, prosper; choose the path of valour”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.1.7: ἀρετά, πολύμοχθε γένει βροτείῳ, θήραμα κάλλιστον βίῳ, σᾶς πέρι, παρθένε, μορφᾶς καὶ θανεῖν ζαλωτὸς ἐν Ἑλλάδι πότμος …

Euripides, Heracleidae 625: ἁ δʼ ἀρετὰ βαίνει διὰ μόχθων.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1093: δύνασιν, ἁ δʼ Ἀρετὰ κατόπι-

All forms of ἀρετάω (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.