ἐλεεῖν (eleein)

ἐλεεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of αἱρέω, meaning “to take, seize, capture; (mid.) choose”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 66 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Agesilaus 13.4: … οῦντα καταλιπὼν τὸν ἐρώμενον. ἐκείνου γὰρ δεομένου καί καλοῦντος αὐτὸν ἀπιόντα, μεταστραφεὶς εἶπεν ὡς χαλεπὸν ἐλεεῖν ἅμα καί φρονεῖν. τουτὶ μὲν Ἱερώνυμος ὁ φιλόσοφος ἱστόρηκεν.

Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 337: οὔθʼ ἵππους ἑλέειν οὔτε κλυτὰ τεύχεα τοῖο.

All forms of αἱρέω (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.