ἐπαΐειν (epaiein)

ἐπαΐειν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπαίω, meaning “hear, understand”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium 7·2: … καὶ νῦν ἑνὸς Ἀθηναῖοι κήρυκος ἀκροῶνται καὶ ἄρχοντος τοῦ νόμου, δημοκρατίαν ἔχοντες. σὺ δὲ δεινὸς εἶ κοράκων ἐπαΐειν καὶ κολοιῶν, τῆς δὲ θεοῦ φωνῆς οὐκ ἀκριβῶς ἐξακούεις, ἀλλὰ πόλιν μὲν οἴει κατὰ τὸν θεὸν ἄριστα πράττειν τὴν ἑ …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 2.11.51: … ὲμ τρυφή· πίστις δὲ καὶ γνῶσις καὶ εἰρήνη ἡ τρυφή, ἧς ὁ παρακούσας ἐκβάλλεται, ὁ δὲ οἰησίσοφος τὴν ἀρχὴν οὐδὲ ἐπαίειν βούλεται τῶν θείων ἐντολῶν, ἀλλ’ οἷον αὐτομαθὴς ἀφηνιάσας εἰς σάλον κυμαινόμενον ἑκὼν μεθίσταται. εἰς τὰ θνητ …

All forms of ἐπαίω (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.