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ἔμαθεν (emathen)

ἔμαθεν is an Ancient Greek form of μανθάνω, meaning “learn, understand”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 111 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.87.4: … ούχετε· τῶνδε δὲ ἡ ἐπιστήμη, ἣν μάλιστα φοβεῖσθε, ἀνδρείαν μὲν ἔχουσα καὶ μνήμην ἕξει ἐν τῷ δεινῷ ἐπιτελεῖν ἃ ἔμαθεν, ἄνευ δὲ εὐψυχίας οὐδεμία τέχνη πρὸς τοὺς κινδύνους ἰσχύει. φόβος γὰρ μνήμην ἐκπλήσσει, τέχνη δὲ ἄνευ ἀλκῆς ο …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume III 9.516.1: ἔρδοι τὴν ἔμαθέν τις, ὅπου καὶ ὑπʼ Ἄλπιας ἄκρας

All forms of μανθάνω (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.