ἕλοιτο (heloito)

ἕλοιτο is an Ancient Greek form of αἱρέω, meaning “to take, seize, capture; (mid.) choose”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle optative.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.70: … αρὰ ταῖς τῶν πλουσίων θύραις, καὶ γὰρ καὶ οἱ ἰατροί. φησί, παρὰ ταῖς τῶν νοσούντων· ἀλλʼ οὐ παρὰ τοῦτό τις ἂν ἕλοιτο νοσεῖν ἢ ἰατρεύειν.

Sophocles, Philoctetes 47: ἕλοιτό μʼ ἢ τοὺς πάντας Ἀργείους λαβεῖν.

All forms of αἱρέω (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.