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ἱστορῆσαι (historesai)

ἱστορῆσαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἱστορέω, meaning “inquire, find out”. It is the aorist active infinitive or 3rd person singular aorist active optative.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Helen 416: ὥσθʼ ἱστορῆσαι, τὰς ἐμὰς δυσχλαινίας

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.112: δηλῶν ὡς Θεόπομπός τε βουληθεὶς ἱστορῆσαί τι περὶ τούτων ἐταράχθη τὴν διάνοιαν πλείοσιν ἢ τριάκοντα ἡμέραις καὶ παρὰ τὰς ἀνέσεις ἐξιλάσκετο τὸν θεόν, ἐ …

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 8.4.1: μυρίους μὲν γὰρ ἱστορήσαι ἄν τις θαυμαστὴν ὑπὲρ εὐσεβείας τοῦ θεοῦ τῶν ὅλων ἐνδεδειγμένους προθυμίαν, οὐκ ἐξ ὅτουπερ μόνον ὁ κατὰ πάντων ἀνεκινήθη διωγμός, πολὺ πρότερον δὲ καθ’ ὃν ἔτι τὰ τῆς εἰρήνης συνεκροτεῖτο.

All forms of ἱστορέω (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.