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ἐποιεῖτο (epoieito)

ἐποιεῖτο is an Ancient Greek form of ποιέω, meaning “to make, do, create”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 466 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.20.3: ἐπειδὴ οὖν αὐτῷ ἐς Ἐλευσῖνα καὶ τὸ Θριάσιον πεδίον οὐκ ἀπήντησαν, πεῖραν ἐποιεῖτο περὶ τὰς Ἀχαρνὰς καθήμενος εἰ ἐπεξίασιν·

Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum 9.1·2: … αιεῖ δʼ ἔχειν Ἀρισταγόραν, ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι δʼ ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις κτήμασι Φίλαν τὴν Θηβαίαν, εἴκοσι μνῶν λυτρωσάμενος. ἐποιεῖτό τε τὸν περίπατον ἐν τῇ ἰχθυοπώλιδι ὁσημέραι. ὡς εἰκὸς δέ, καὶ δίκῃ Φρύνῃ τῇ ἑταίρᾳ ἀσεβεῖν κρινομένῃ συνεξητά …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 49.13.2: ἐπειδή τε μάτην ἐθρύλουν (ὁ γὰρ Καῖσαρ, ἅτε μηδενὸς ἔτι πολεμίου οἱ παρόντος, ἐν ὀλιγωρίᾳ αὐτοὺς ἐποιεῖτὀ, ἐθορύβουν· καὶ αὐτῷ καὶ προφέροντες πάνθʼ ὅσʼ ἐτεταλαιπώρηντο, καὶ προβάλλοντες εἴ τί που ὑπέσχητό σφισι, πο …

All forms of ποιέω (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.