Socratos Sign in

ἐνέπρησε (eneprese)

ἐνέπρησε is an Ancient Greek form of ἐμπίμπρημι, meaning “set on fire”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alcibiades 37.3: … ν δʼ ἀνθρώπων τρισχιλίους ἑλὼν ζῶντας ἀπέσφαξεν ὁ Λύσανδρος. ἔλαβε δὲ καὶ τὰς Ἀθήνας ὀλίγῳ χρόνῳ καὶ τὰς ναῦς ἐνέπρησε καὶ τὰ μακρὰ τείχη καθεῖλεν. ἐκ δὲ τούτου φοβηθεὶς ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδης ἄρχοντας ἤδη καὶ γῆς καὶ θαλάττης τοὺς Λακεδα …

All forms of ἐμπίμπρημι (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.