ἐψεύσατο (epseusato)

ἐψεύσατο is an Ancient Greek form of ψεύδω, meaning “deceive; lie”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle indicative.

Found 55 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 808: εἰ μή τι σός με δεσπότης ἐψεύσατο.

Plato, Laws 2.663·2: … εἴπερ τι καὶ ἄλλο ἐτόλμησεν ἂν ἐπʼ ἀγαθῷ ψεύδεσθαι πρὸς τοὺς νέους, ἔστιν ὅτι τούτου ψεῦδος λυσιτελέστερον ἂν ἐψεύσατό ποτε καὶ δυνάμενον μᾶλλον ποιεῖν μὴ βίᾳ ἀλλʼ ἑκόντας πάντας πάντα τὰ δίκαια; καλὸν μὲν ἡ ἀλήθεια, ὦ ξένε, καὶ …

All forms of ψεύδω (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.