ἐκράτει (ekratei)

ἐκράτει is an Ancient Greek form of κρατέω, meaning “rule, be master of, prevail”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 107 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.9.4: … ισι καὶ Ἄργεϊ παντὶ ἀνάσσειν· οὐκ ἂν οὖν νήσων ἔξω τῶν περιοικίδων (αὗται δὲ οὐκ ἂν πολλαὶ εἶεν) ἠπειρώτης ὢν ἐκράτει, εἰ μή τι καὶ ναυτικὸν εἶχεν. εἰκάζειν δὲ χρὴ καὶ ταύτῃ τῇ στρατείᾳ οἷα ἦν τὰ πρὸ αὐτῆς.

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 2.14.61: Ἐκράτει μὲν οὖν ὁ νόμος τότε καὶ τὸν ἀκουσίως φονεύσαντα ὡς τὸν ἀκουσίως γονορρυῆ, ἀλλ’ οὐ κατ’ ἴσον τῷ ἑκουσίως. καί …

All forms of κρατέω (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.