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ἐγγενέσθαι (engenesthai)

ἐγγενέσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐγγίγνομαι, meaning “arise in, be born in”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 28.6: τὰς μὲν οὖν τοιαύτας χαλεπότητας ὕστερον ἐγγενέσθαι τοῖς Σπαρτιάταις νομίζω, μάλιστά μετὰ τὸν μέγαν σεισμόν, ᾧ συνεπιθέσθαι τοὺς εἵλωτας μετὰ Μεσσηνίων ἱστοροῦσι …

All forms of ἐγγίγνομαι (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.