ἥπτετο (hepteto)

ἥπτετο is an Ancient Greek form of ἅπτω, meaning “fasten, light; (mid.) touch, grasp (gen.)”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 75 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.8.1: … νται, τότε δὲ καὶ νεότης πολλὴ μὲν οὖσα ἐν τῇ Πελοποννήσῳ, πολλὴ δ’ ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναις οὐκ ἀκουσίως ὑπὸ ἀπειρίας ἥπτετο τοῦ πολέμου, ἥ τε ἄλλη Ἑλλὰς ἅπασα μετέωρος ἦν ξυνιουσῶν τῶν πρώτων πόλεων.

Plutarch, Alcibiades 18.4: οὐ μὴν ἥπτετό γε τῶν πολλῶν οὔθʼ οὗτος ὁ λόγος οὔθʼ ὁ τῶν σημεῖον δεινὸν εἶναι μηδὲν οἰομένων, ἀλλʼ οἷα φιλεῖ φέρειν ἄκρατο …

All forms of ἅπτω (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.