ἡττᾶσθαι (hettasthai)

ἡττᾶσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἡσσάομαι, meaning “be defeated”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 72 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.75: πρὸς οὖν τοὺς μεμφομένους αὐτῷ ἔφη, ἔχω [Λαΐδα], ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἔχομαι· ἐπεὶ τὸ κρατεῖν καὶ μὴ ἡττᾶσθαι ἡδονῶν ἄριστον, οὐ τὸ μὴ χρῆσθαι. πρὸς τὸν ὀνειδίσαντα αὐτῷ πολυτελῆ ὀψωνίαν ἔφη, σὺ δʼ οὐκ ἂν τριωβόλου ταῦτ …

All forms of ἡσσάομαι (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.