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ἐπιδεῖξαι (epideixai)

ἐπιδεῖξαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιδείκνυμι, meaning “show off, display”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 193 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Numa 15.2: … υ προθέσθαι καὶ δημοτικὸν ἀρξαμένων δὲ δειπνεῖν ἐμβαλὼν λόγον ὡς ἡ θεὸς ᾗ σύνεστιν ἥκοι πρὸς αὐτόν, αἰφνίδιον ἐπιδεῖξαι τόν τε οἶκον ἐκπωμάτων πλήρη πολυτελῶν καὶ τὰς τραπέζας ὄψων τε παντοδαπῶν καὶ παρασκευῆς δαψιλοῦς γεμούσας.

Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 180: καίτοι δύο χρησιμωτέρους τόπους τῆς οἰκουμένης οὐδʼ ἂν εἷς ἐπιδείξαι τῇ πόλει, κατὰ μὲν γῆν Πυλῶν, ἐκ θαλάττης δὲ τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου· ἃ συναμφότερʼ οὗτοι πεπράκασιν αἰσχρῶς καὶ καθʼ …

Aristophanes, Clouds 935: ἀλλʼ ἐπίδειξαι σύ τε τοὺς προτέρους

All forms of ἐπιδείκνυμι (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.