ἐκράτησε (ekratese)

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

Found 132 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.4.1: Μίνως γὰρ παλαίτατος ὧν ἀκοῇ ἴσμεν ναυτικὸν ἐκτήσατο καὶ τῆς νῦν Ἑλληνικῆς θαλάσσης ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐκράτησε καὶ τῶν Κυκλάδων νήσων ἦρξέ τε καὶ οἰκιστὴς πρῶτος τῶν πλείστων ἐγένετο, Κᾶρας ἐξελάσας καὶ τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ παῖδα …

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 12: Ἐκράτησε δὲ πότερος, ὦ Λυκῖνε, ὁ διδάσκαλος ἢ ὁ Εὐθύδημος; εἴ τι καὶ τοιοῦτον ἔλεγεν ὁ Μίδας. Τὰ μὲν πρῶτά φασιν, ὦ Ἑρ …

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 23.2: … Αἶαν, εἰ ἄνθρωπος ὢν ὠρέχθη δόξης ἡδίστου πράγματος, ὑπὲρ οὗ καὶ ἡμῶν ἕκαστος κινδυνεύειν ὑπέμενεν, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἐκράτησέ σου καὶ ταῦτα ἐπὶ Τρωσὶ δικασταῖς. Οἶδα ἐγώ, ἥτις μου κατεδίκασεν· ἀλλ’ οὐ θέμις λέγειν τι περὶ τῶν θεῶν. τὸν …

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.