ἐρρίπτουν (erriptoun)

ἐρρίπτουν is an Ancient Greek form of ῥίπτω, meaning “throw, hurl”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

It can also be a form of ῥιπτέω, “throw”.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 18.1: τῆς μέντοι Ταρπηίας ἐκεῖ ταφείσης, ὁ λόφος ὠνομάζετο Ταρπήιος, ἄχρι οὗ Ταρκυνίου βασιλέως Διὶ τὸν τόπον καθιεροῦντος ἅμα τά τε λείψανα μετηνέχθη, καὶ τοὔνομα τῆς Ταρπηίας ἐξέλιπε· πλὴν πέτραν ἔτι νῦν ἐν τῷ Καπιτωλίῳ Ταρπηίαν καλοῦσιν, ἀφʼ ἧς ἐρρίπτουν τοὺς κακούργους.

All forms of ῥίπτω (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.