ἐρῶσι (erosi)

ἐρῶσι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐράω, meaning “love, desire passionately”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 23.24: ξυνάν, τοῖσιν ἐρῶσι τὸ φάρμακον ἔνθα τὸ λᾶθος.

Plutarch, Aratus 15.3: … τῷ Πτολεμαίῳ γράφοντες, ὥστε κἀκεῖνον ἐγκαλοῦντα πέμψαι. ταῖς μὲν οὖν περιμαχήτοις καὶ διαπύροις τοξευομέναις ἔρωσι φιλίαις βασιλέων καὶ τυράννων τοσοῦτον προσῆν φθόνου καὶ κακοηθείας.

Plato, Republic 3.403: … ἔρωτι; οὐ προσοιστέον. οὐ προσοιστέον ἄρα αὕτη ἡ ἡδονή, οὐδὲ κοινωνητέον αὐτῆς ἐραστῇ τε καὶ παιδικοῖς ὀρθῶς ἐρῶσί τε καὶ ἐρωμένοις; οὐ μέντοι μὰ Δίʼ, ἔφη, ὦ Σώκρατες, προσοιστέον. οὕτω δή, ὡς ἔοικε, νομοθετήσεις ἐν τῇ οἰκιζ …

All forms of ἐράω (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.