ἡγήσαιτο (hegesaito)

ἡγήσαιτο is an Ancient Greek form of ἡγέομαι, meaning “lead, guide; think, believe”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle optative.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 21.3: … εσώζετο, καὶ τοὺς ἐμβατηρίους ῥυθμοὺς ἀναλαβών, οἷς ἐχρῶντο πρὸς τὸν αὐλὸν ἐπάγοντες τοῖς πολεμίοις, οὐ κακῶς ἡγήσαιτο καὶ τὸν Τέρπανδρον καὶ τὸν Πίνδαρον τὴν ἀνδρείαν τῇ μουσικῇ συνάπτειν. ὁ μὲν γὰρ οὕτως πεποίηκε περὶ τῶν Λακε …

Lucian of Samosata, Rhetorum praeceptor 9: … τῇ ἐλπιζομένῃ ἐκείνῃ εὐδαιμονίᾳ. πρὸς δὲ τούτοις οὐδὲ μισθοὺς ὀλίγους ἀπαιτεῖ τῶν τοσούτων κακῶν, ἀλλὰ οὐκ ἂν ἡγήσαιτό σοι, εἰ μὴ μεγάλα πρότερον λάβοι.

All forms of ἡγέομαι (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.