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ἐπιτηδεύειν (epitedeuein)

ἐπιτηδεύειν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιτηδεύω, meaning “pursue, practise”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Timoleon 14.4: … μὴ φοβερὸν εἶναι τοῖς Κορινθίοις, μηδʼ ὕποπτον ὡς βαρυνόμενον τὴν μεταβολὴν τοῦ βίου καὶ πραγμάτων ἐφιέμενον, ἐπιτηδεύειν καὶ ὑποκρίνεσθαι παρὰ φύσιν, πολλὴν ἀβελτερίαν ἐπιδεικνύμενον ἐν τῷ σχολάζειν.

All forms of ἐπιτηδεύω (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.