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ἐπιλαθέσθαι (epilathesthai)

ἐπιλαθέσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιλανθάνομαι, meaning “forget”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 8.2: … τῷ Καμίλλῳ καὶ προφάσεως ἀποροῦντι βελτίονος εἰς τὸν ἀτοπώτατον τῶν λόγων συνέβαινε καταφεύγειν, ὁμολογοῦντι ἐπιλαθέσθαι τῆς εὐχῆς, οἱ δʼ ἐχαλέπαινον, εἰ τὰ τῶν πολεμίων δεκατεύσειν εὐξάμενος τότε νῦν δεκατεύει τὰ τῶν πολιτῶν, οὐ …

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.