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ὁρᾶν (horan)

ὁρᾶν is an Ancient Greek form of ὁράω, meaning “to see, look, behold”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 684 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.11.7: πᾶσι γὰρ ἐν τοῖς ὄμμασι καὶ ἐν τῷ παραυτίκα ὁρᾶν πάσχοντάς τι ἄηθες ὀργὴ προσπίπτει· καὶ οἱ λογισμῷ ἐλάχιστα χρώμενοι θυμῷ πλεῖστα ἐς ἔργον καθίστανται.

Hippocrates, De capitis vulneribus 14·2: … ούτων δὲ οὕτω γιγνομένων, ἢν μὴ διαγινώσκῃς εἰ ἔῤῥωγε τὸ ὀστέον, ἢ πέφλασται, ἢ καὶ ἀμφότερα ταῦτα, μήτε ὅλως ὁρᾷν δύνῃ, δεῖ δὴ, ἐπὶ τὸ ὀστέον τὸ τηκτὸν τὸ μελάντατον δεύσαντα, τῷ μέλανι φαρμάκῳ τῷ τηκομένῳ στεῖλαι τὸ ἕλκος, …

All forms of ὁράω (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.