ἤγετο (egeto)

ἤγετο is an Ancient Greek form of ἄγω, meaning “to lead, bring, carry off”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.65.8: … ὢν τῷ τε ἀξιώματι καὶ τῇ γνώμῃ χρημάτων τε διαφανῶς ἀδωρότατος γενόμενος κατεῖχε τὸ πλῆθος ἐλευθέρως, καὶ οὐκ ἤγετο μᾶλλον ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἢ αὐτὸς ἦγε, διὰ τὸ μὴ κτώμενος ἐξ οὐ προσηκόντων τὴν δύναμιν πρὸς ἡδονήν τι λέγειν, ἀλλ’ ἔχ …

Aesop, Fables 21c: … νον, ἢγαγεν αὐτὸν τοῖς τέκνοις παραυτίκα, βρῶμα ποιήσας τοῖς νεοττοῖς καὶ πόμα. Ὁ δὲ ἕτερος ἐλευθερίως ζήσας, ἢγετο οὕτως ἐν ἀδείᾳ τυγχάνων, λαβὼν κλειαν κατὰ τοῦ πολεμίου τοῦ ἐκπορθοῦντος καὶ τροεὔπώσαντος τοῦτον καὶ καυχωμέ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 46.50.6: ἤγετὀ, ἀλλʼ ὅτι τὴν ἔκβασιν τοῦ Ἀντωνιείου πολέμου περισκοποῦντες τῇ τε βουλῇ πεπειθαρχηκέναι δόξαι καὶ τὰ σφέτερα ἅμα κρατύνασθαι

All forms of ἄγω (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.