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ἐτρέψατο (etrepsato)

ἐτρέψατο is an Ancient Greek form of τρέπω, meaning “to turn”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle indicative.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Publicola 17.1: … ατεύων Πορσίνᾳ μὲν ἀτρεμῶν καί φυλάττων τὴν πόλιν ᾤετο δεῖν ἀντέχειν, τοῖς δὲ Τυρρηνοῖς ἐπεξῆλθε καί συμβαλὼν ἐτρέψατο καί πεντακισχιλίους αὐτῶν ἀνεῖλε. τὸ δὲ περὶ Μούκιον εἴρηται μὲν ὑπὸ πολλῶν καὶ διαφόρως, λεκτέον δὲ ᾗ μάλιστ …

Pausanias, Description of Greece 4.16.8: … λόμενος ἀπήλαυνεν ἐς τὴν Μεσσήνην. Λακεδαιμονίων δὲ ὁπλιτῶν καὶ Ἀναξάνδρου τοῦ βασιλέως ἐπιθεμένων καθʼ ὁδόν, ἐτρέψατό τε καὶ τούτους καὶ διώκειν τὸν Ἀνάξανδρον ὥρμητο· βληθεὶς δὲ ἀκοντίῳ τὸν γλουτὸν τὴν δίωξιν ἐπέσχεν, οὐ μέντο …

All forms of τρέπω (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.