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ἐρέσθαι (eresthai)

ἐρέσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἔρομαι, meaning “ask, inquire”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

Found 95 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.8: καὶ δὲ τότε προτὶ νῆα κιών, χρειώ μιν ἐρέσθαι

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 25.64: ὁππόθεν ὁ ξεῖνος· μέμονεν δέ μιν αἰὲν ἔρεσθαι·

All forms of ἔρομαι (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.