ἐλάμβανε (elambane)

ἐλάμβανε is an Ancient Greek form of λαμβάνω, meaning “to take, seize, receive”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 92 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.34.8: ἐπὶ δ’ οὖν τοῖς πρώτοις τοῖσδε Περικλῆς ὁ Ξανθίππου ᾑρέθη λέγειν. καὶ ἐπειδὴ καιρὸς ἐλάμβανε, προελθὼν ἀπὸ τοῦ σήματος ἐπὶ βῆμα ὑψηλὸν πεποιημένον, ὅπως ἀκούοιτο ὡς ἐπὶ πλεῖστον τοῦ ὁμίλου, ἔλεγε τοιάδε.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.57.1: … ν ἱδρύεται τὰ ἕδη τῶν θεῶν ἐν τῷ κρατίστῳ καὶ αὐτίκα περὶ τὴν κατασκευὴν τοῦ πολίσματος ἁπάσῃ προθυμίᾳ ὥρμητο ἐλάμβανέ τε καταθέων ἐκ τῶν πέριξ χωρίων ὁπόσα εἰς τὸν πολισμὸν αὐτῷ ἦν χρήσιμα καὶ μάλιστα ἔμελλε λυπηρὰ τοῖς ἀφαιρεθ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 54.30.1: … ανορθωτὴς τῶν τρόπων ἐς ἕτερα ἔτη πέντε αἱρεθείς (καὶ γὰρ τοῦτο κατὰ προθεσμίας, ὥσπερ που καὶ τὴν μοναρχίαν, ἐλάμβανἐ θυμιᾶν τε τοὺς βουλευτὰς ἐν τῷ συνεδρίῳ, ὁσάκις ἂν ἕδρα αὐτῶν ᾖ, καὶ τὴν ἄφιξιν πρὸς ἑαυτὸν μὴ ποιεῖσθαι, τὸ …

All forms of λαμβάνω (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.