ἔλαθε (elathe)

ἔλαθε is an Ancient Greek form of λανθάνω, meaning “escape notice of, be unseen”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 95 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.30.2: τῶν δὲ στρατιωτῶν ἀναγκασθέντων διὰ τὴν στενοχωρίαν τῆς νήσου τοῖς ἐσχάτοις προσίσχοντας ἀριστοποιεῖσθαι διὰ προφυλακῆς καὶ ἐμπρήσαντός τινος κατὰ μικρὸν τῆς ὕλης ἄκοντος καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου πνεύματος ἐπιγενομένου τὸ πολὺ αὐτῆς ἔλαθε κατακαυθέν.

Plutarch, Aratus 52.2: … κὰς τὸ πρῶτον ἐν τῷ σώματι καὶ βῆχα κινούντων ἀμβλεῖαν, εἶτα οὕτως κατὰ μικρὸν εἰς φθορὰν περαινόντων. οὐ μὴν ἔλαθέ γε τὸνἌρατον ἀλλʼ ὡς οὐδὲν ἦν ὄφελος ἐλέγχοντι, πράως καὶ σιωπῇ τὸ πάθος, ὡς δή τινα νόσον κοινὴν καὶ συνήθη …

Julian, Emperor of Rome, Κατὰ Γαλιλαίων 40: Ἔλαθέ με μικροῦ τὸ μέγιστον τῶν Ἡλίου καὶ Διὸς δώρων. εἰκότως δὲ αὐτὸ ἐφύλαξα ἐν τῷ τέλει. καὶ γὰρ οὐκ ἴδιόν ἐστιν …

All forms of λανθάνω (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.