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ἐνεργεῖν (energein)

ἐνεργεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐνεργέω, meaning “be at work, operate”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 69 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Virtute Morali 5: … λάκις ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστι καὶ τῷ βουλευτικῷ χρῆσθαι περὶ τῶν ἀδηλοτέρων, τῷ δὲ πρακτικῷ τὸ βουλευτικὸν ἐκδεχομένην ἐνεργεῖν ἤδη καὶ τοῦ ἀλόγου συμπαρόντος καὶ συνεφελκομένου ταῖς κρίσεσιν. ὁρμῆς γὰρ δέονται· τὴν δʼ ὁρμὴν τῷ πάθει ποι …

All forms of ἐνεργέω (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.