ἐπαινεῖται (epaineitai)

ἐπαινεῖται is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπαινέω, meaning “praise, approve”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.2.18: Ξενοφάνης Δεξίου ἤ, ὡς Ἀπολλόδωρος, Ὀρθομένους Κολοφώνιος ἐπαινεῖται πρὸς τοῦ Τίμωνος· φησὶ γοῦν, Ξεινοφάνην θʼ ὑπάτυφον, Ὁμηραπάτην ἐπικόπτην. οὗτος ἐκπεσὼν τῆς πατρίδος ἐν Ζάγκ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 6.55.2: … τρίως ἐνουθετήσατε καὶ πολιτικῶς; καὶ οὐκ ἔσθʼ ὅπως ἢ κινδυνός τις διὰ ταῦτα κατέλαβε τὴν πόλιν ἢ ψόγος, ἀλλʼ ἐπαινεῖταί τε ὑμῶν τὸ ἐπιεικὲς καὶ οὐδὲν ἠλάττωται τοῦ ἀσφαλοῦς.

All forms of ἐπαινέω (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.