ἤχθετο (echtheto)

ἤχθετο is an Ancient Greek form of ἄχθομαι, meaning “be vexed, be burdened”.

It can also be a form of ἔχθω, “hate”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 71 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.48.3: καὶ ὁ μὲν ὄχλος, εἰ καί τι παραυτίκα ἤχθετο τοῖς πρασσομένοις, διὰ τὸ εὔπορον τῆς ἐλπίδος τοῦ παρὰ βασιλέως μισθοῦ ἡσύχαζεν· οἱ δὲ ξυνιστάντες τὴν ὀλιγαρ …

Plutarch, Dion 5.2: οὔτε τοὺς λόγους ἔφερεν ὁ τύραννος ὥσπερ ἐξελεγχόμενος, ἤχθετό τε τοῖς παροῦσι θαυμαστῶς ἀποδεχομένοις τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ κηλουμένοις ὑπὸ τῶν λεγομένων.

Procopius, De Bellis 1.25.16: περιχαρὴς δὲ τῷ λόγῳ γενομένη ἡ Εὐφημία ʽδέει γὰρ τῷ ἐκ τῆς βασιλίδος καὶ αὐτὴ τῇ παρούσῃ ἀρχῇ ἤχθετὀ “Καὶ τοῦδε μέντοι, ὦ φιλτάτη,” ἔφη, “ὑμεῖς αἴτιοι, ὅτι δὴ παρὸν ὑμῖν

All forms of ἄχθομαι (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.