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ἐξελέσθαι (exelesthai)

ἐξελέσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐξαιρέω, meaning “take out, remove; capture”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alcibiades 21.3: … ανεῖν ἀδόξως, καὶ τὸ κοινῇ σκοποῦντι συμφέρον ὑπάρχειν, ὀλίγους καὶ ἀμφιβόλους προέμενον, πολλοὺς καὶ ἀγαθοὺς ἐξελέσθαι τῆς ὀργῆς.

All forms of ἐξαιρέω (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.