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ἐπιτάττειν (epitattein)

ἐπιτάττειν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιτάσσω, meaning “command, order”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Themistocles 18.5: … ὸν ἐντρυφῶντα τῇ μητρὶ καὶ διʼ ἐκείνην αὐτῷ σκώπτων ἔλεγε πλεῖστον τῶν Ἑλλήνων δύνασθαι· τοῖς μὲν γὰρ Ἕλλησιν ἐπιτάττειν Ἀθηναίους, Ἀθηναίοις δʼ αὐτόν, αὐτῷ δὲ τὴν ἐκείνου μητέρα, τῇ μητρὶ δʼ ἐκεῖνον. ἴδιος δέ τις ἐν πᾶσι βουλόμεν …

All forms of ἐπιτάσσω (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.