ἕλκεσθαι (helkesthai)

ἕλκεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἕλκω, meaning “drag, draw, pull”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 225: βλέψον πρὸς αὐτοὺς βλέψον· — ἕλκεσθαι βίᾳ.

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 3.13: … μάζειν, εἰ, διʼ ὧν εἰς ἧπαρ ἀνεδόθη φλεβῶν ἐκ γαστρός, αὖθις εἰς αὐτὴν ἐξ ἥπατος ἐν ταῖς μακροτέραις ἀσιτίαις ἕλκεσθαί τις δύναται τροφή. τὸ γὰρ τοῖς τοιούτοις ἀπιστεῖν ὅμοιόν ἐστι δήπου τῷ μηκέτι πιστεύειν μηδʼ ὅτι τὰ καθαίροντ …

All forms of ἕλκω (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.