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ἐπιμεληθῆναι (epimelethenai)

ἐπιμεληθῆναι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιμελέομαι, meaning “take care of”. It is the aorist middle/passive infinitive.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.2.3: εἶπον δὲ τούτοις καὶ Κερκυραίων ἅμα παραπλέοντας τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἐπιμεληθῆναι, οἳ ἐλῃστεύοντο ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν τῷ ὄρει φυγάδων· καὶ Πελοποννησίων αὐτόσε νῆες ἑξήκοντα παρεπεπλεύκεσαν τοῖς ἐν τῷ …

Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.3.11: … τίκα μάλα δοῦλος μὲν εἶναι ἀντʼ ἐλευθέρου, πολλὰ δὲ δαπανᾶν εἰς βλαβερὰς ἡδονάς, πολλὴν δὲ ἀσχολίαν ἔχειν τοῦ ἐπιμεληθῆναί τινος καλοῦ κἀγαθοῦ, σπουδάζειν δʼ ἀναγκασθῆναι ἐφʼ οἷς οὐδʼ ἂν μαινόμενος σπουδάσειεν;

All forms of ἐπιμελέομαι (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.