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ἥρπασεν (herpasen)

ἥρπασεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἁρπάζω, meaning “seize, snatch, plunder”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.8.103: … ς πάντας ἔπειθε βιοῦν ἤθεσιν Ἑλλαδικοῖς. τὸν δʼ ἔτι μῦθον ἄκραντον ἐνὶ στομάτεσσιν ἔχοντα πτηνὸς ἐς ἀθανάτους ἥρπασεν ὦκα δόναξ. Οὗτος τὴν ἄμπελον εἶπε τρεῖς φέρειν βότρυς· τὸν πρῶτον ἡδονῆς· τὸν δεύτερον μέθης· τὸν τρίτον ἀνδί …

All forms of ἁρπάζω (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.