ἔθετο (etheto)

ἔθετο is an Ancient Greek form of τίθημι, meaning “to put, place, set; make”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle indicative.

Found 184 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.2.4: … ς οἴχεται· εὐφρόνης, ὥσπερ ἐώθει, ἅμα τῇ ἀμφιπόλῳ προϊὼν ἐκ τοῦ αὐλίου τὰ ἄστρα ἐθηεῖτο· καί—οὐ γὰρ ἐς μνήμην ἔθετο—θηεύμενος ἐς τὸ κρημνῶδες ἐκβὰς καταπίπτει. Μιλησίοισι μέν νυν ὁ αἰθερολόγος ἐν τοιῷδε κεῖται τέλει. ἡμέες δὲ …

Euripides, Hecuba 711: ἵνʼ ὁ γέρων πατὴρ ἔθετό νιν κρύψας.

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 1.2·2: Ἔθετο δὲ τὸν Ἀδὰμ ὁ θεὸς ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ, ὅν αὐτὸς κατεφύτευσεν, ἔνθα τὸ ξύλον ἦν τῆς ζωῆς καὶ τὸ ξύλον τῆς γνώσεως …

All forms of τίθημι (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.