ἤρετο (ereto)

ἤρετο is an Ancient Greek form of αἴρω, meaning “lift, raise, take up”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

It can also be a form of ἔρομαι, “ask, inquire”.

Found 197 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.118.2: … λέμους, ἢν μὴ ἀναγκάζωνται, τὸ δέ τι καὶ πολέμοις οἰκείοις ἐξειργόμενοι, πρὶν δὴ ἡ δύναμις τῶν Ἀθηναίων σαφῶς ᾔρετο καὶ τῆς ξυμμαχίας αὐτῶν ἥπτοντο. τότε δὲ οὐκέτι ἀνασχετὸν ἐποιοῦντο, ἀλλ’ ἐπιχειρητέα ἐδόκει εἶναι πάσῃ προθυ …

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 63.2: ἐξάγοντος δʼ αὐτοῦ τὸ στράτευμα ἐπὶ Μεσσήνην, ἤρετό τις εἰ τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς μάχεσθαι μέλλει, οὐκ ἔφη ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀκλήρωτον τῆς χώρας βαδίζει.

Aesop, Fables 144b: … άθητο. λειμῶνος δὲ ἐπιγενομένου, καὶ τῆς νεὼς μελλούσης ἤδη καταποντίζεσθαι, ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς πρύμνης τὸν κυβερνήτην ἢρετο, πότερον τῶν μερῶν τοῦ πλοίου πρότερον μέλλει καταβαπτίζεσθαι. Τοῦ δὲ “τὴν πρῴραν“ εἰπόντος, “ἀλλ’ ἔμοιγε οὐκ …

All forms of αἴρω (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.