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ἐπαιρόμενος (epairomenos)

ἐπαιρόμενος is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπαίρω, meaning “lift up, rouse, excite”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.120.4: ὅ τε γὰρ διὰ τὴν ἡδονὴν ὀκνῶν τάχιστ’ ἂν ἀφαιρεθείη τῆς ῥᾳστώνης τὸ τερπνὸν δι’ ὅπερ ὀκνεῖ, εἰ ἡσυχάζοι, ὅ τε ἐν πολέμῳ εὐτυχίᾳ πλεονάζων οὐκ ἐντεθύμηται θράσει ἀπίστῳ ἐπαιρόμενος.

Plutarch, Alexander 18.4: ἤδη δὲ καί Δαρεῖος ἐκ Σούσων κατέβαινεν, ἐπαιρόμενός τε τῷ πλήθει τῆς δυνάμεως ἑξήκοντα γὰρ ἦγε μυριάδας στρατοῦ, καί τινος ὀνείρου θαρρύνοντος αὐτόν, ὃν οἱ μάγοι …

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.