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ἐρωτῆσαι (erotesai)

ἐρωτῆσαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐρωτάω, meaning “ask”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.11.116: … εὐεργεσίας οὕτως εἷλεν ὥστε προσέχειν αὐτῷ. τοῦτόν φασιν περὶ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς τῆς τοῦ Φειδίου τοιοῦτόν τινα λόγον ἐρωτῆσαι· ἆρά γε ἡ τοῦ Διὸς Ἀθηνᾶ θεός ἐστι; φήσαντος δέ, ναί, αὕτη δέ γε, εἶπεν, οὐκ ἔστι Διός, ἀλλὰ Φειδίου· συγχωρο …

New Testament, Acts 23.20: εἶπεν δὲ ὅτι Οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι συνέθεντο τοῦ ἐρωτῆσαί σε ὅπως αὔριον τὸν Παῦλον καταγάγῃς εἰς τὸ συνέδριον ὡς μέλλων τι ἀκριβέστερον πυνθάνεσθαι περὶ αὐτοῦ·

All forms of ἐρωτάω (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.