ἐπήρετο (epereto)

ἐπήρετο is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπαίρω, meaning “lift up, rouse, excite”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle indicative.

It can also be a form of ἐπέρομαι, “ask, inquire”.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alexander 27.3: … ἔρημον ἧκεν εἰς τόν τόπον, ὁ μὲν προφήτης αὐτὸν ὁ Ἄμμωνος ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ χαίρειν, ὡς ἀπὸ πατρὸς, προσεῖπεν ὁ δὲ ἐπήρετο μή τις αὐτὸν εἴη διαπεφευγὼς τῶν τοῦ πατρὸς φονέων.

All forms of ἐπαίρω (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.