ἀφαιρεῖσθαι (aphaireisthai)

ἀφαιρεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφαιρέω, meaning “take away, remove”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 115 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Helen 908: τἀλλότρια μὴ σχεῖν μηδʼ ἀφαιρεῖσθαι βίᾳ.

Lucian of Samosata, Timon 32: … αὶ πολλοῦ ἄξιον ἀπέδειξα; οὕτως ἄρα εὐκαταφρόνητος ὑμῖν ἡ Πενία δοκῶ καὶ εὐαδίκητος, ὥσθʼ ὃ μόνον κτῆμα εἶχον ἀφαιρεῖσθαί με, ἀκριβῶς πρὸς ἀρετὴν ἐξειργασμένον, ἵνα αὖθις ὁ Πλοῦτος παραλαβὼν αὐτὸν Ὕβρει καὶ Τύφῳ ἐγχειρίσας ὅμοιον τ …

All forms of ἀφαιρέω (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.