ἔλαχε (elache)

ἔλαχε is an Ancient Greek form of λαγχάνω, meaning “obtain by lot, receive”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, The Trojan Women 244: τίνʼ ἄρα τίς ἔλαχε; τίνα πότμος εὐτυχὴς

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isaeo 10: … ἠναγκασμένον ἐν δικαστηρίῳ λέγειν, ὁ μὲν Λυσίας ἐν τῷ πρὸς Ἀρχεβιάδην λόγῳ τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον· ἐπειδὴ τάχιστα ἔλαχέ μοι ταύτην τὴν δίκην Ἀρχεβιάδης, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, προσῆλθον αὐτῷ λέγων, ὅτι νέος καὶ ἄπειρος εἴην πραγμάτων …

All forms of λαγχάνω (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.