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ἐραστῇ (eraste)

ἐραστῇ is an Ancient Greek form of ἐραστής, meaning “lover”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of ἐραστός, “beloved, lovely”.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Titus Flamininus 5.5: … ἀπαντῶντες ἀνδρὶ τήν τε ἡλικίαν νέῳ καὶ τήν ὄψιν φιλανθρώπῳ, φωνήν τε καὶ διάλεκτον Ἕλληνι καὶ τιμῆς ἀληθοῦς ἐραστῇ, θαυμασίως ἐκηλοῦντο, καὶ τὰς πόλεις ἀπιόντες ἐνεπίμπλασαν εὐνοίας τῆς πρὸς αὐτόν ὡς ἐχούσας ἡγεμόνα τῆς ἐλευ …

All forms of ἐραστής (declension 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.