ἅπτεσθαι (haptesthai)

ἅπτεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἅπτω, meaning “fasten, light; (mid.) touch, grasp (gen.)”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 191 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.61.2: καὶ ἔλεγον οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι Ἀλκιβιάδου πρεσβευτοῦ παρόντος ἔν τε τοῖς Ἀργείοις καὶ ξυμμάχοις ταῦτα, ὅτι οὐκ ὀρθῶς αἱ σπονδαὶ ἄνευ τῶν ἄλλων ξυμμάχων καὶ γένοιντο, καὶ νῦν (ἐν καιρῷ γὰρ παρεῖναι σφεῖς) ἅπτεσθαι χρῆναι τοῦ πολέμου.

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 5.7.3: … ς· καὶ γὰρ τὰ δήγματα τῶν κυνῶν χαλεπώτερα γίγνεται μετʼ ὀργῆς δακνόντων· καὶ τὰ σπέρματα τῶν ἀνθρώπων μᾶλλον ἅπτεσθαί φασιν, ὅταν ἐρῶντες πλησιάζωσι· καὶ ὅλως τὰ πάθη τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς ἐπιρρώννυσι καὶ ποιεῖ σφοδροτέρας τὰς τοῦ σώματ …

All forms of ἅπτω (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.