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ἱκετεύειν (hiketeuein)

ἱκετεύειν is an Ancient Greek form of ἱκετεύω, meaning “supplicate, beg”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Artaxerxes 29.6: … νέσθαι βασιλέως αὐτοῦ παρόντος, τὸν δὲ Δαρεῖον, ὡς κατελαμβάνετο τοῖς ἐλέγχοις, ἐπὶ στόμα πεσόντα δεῖσθαι καὶ ἱκετεύειν·

All forms of ἱκετεύω (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.