ᾑρέθη (herethe)

ᾑρέθη is an Ancient Greek form of αἱρέω, meaning “to take, seize, capture; (mid.) choose”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist passive indicative.

Found 79 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.34.8: ἐπὶ δ’ οὖν τοῖς πρώτοις τοῖσδε Περικλῆς ὁ Ξανθίππου ᾑρέθη λέγειν. καὶ ἐπειδὴ καιρὸς ἐλάμβανε, προελθὼν ἀπὸ τοῦ σήματος ἐπὶ βῆμα ὑψηλὸν πεποιημένον, ὅπως ἀκούοιτο ὡς ἐπὶ πλεῖστον τοῦ ὁμίλου, ἔλεγε τοιάδε.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 39.18.1: μετὰ δὲ δὴ τοῦτο ὁ Κλώδιος ἐπειδὴ τάχιστα ἐς τὴν ἀγορανομίαν ἐπί τε τοῦ Φιλίππου καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ Μαρκελλίνου παρεληλύθει (πρὸς γὰρ τὴν ἀπόδρασιν τῆς δίκης παρακελευστὸς ᾑρέθἠ, γραφὴν κατὰ τοῦ Μίλωνος τῆς τῶν μονομάχων παρασκευῆς ἀπήνεγκε· ἃ γὰρ αὐτὸς ἔπραττε καὶ

All forms of αἱρέω (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.