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ῥηθήσεσθαι (rhethesesthai)

ῥηθήσεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐρῶ, meaning “I will say, will speak (future of λέγω)”. It is the future passive infinitive.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 15: … αῦτα μὲν οὖν οὐκ ἐνδοιάσας οὐδὲ μελλήσας περὶ τῆς τῶν παίδων εὐκοσμίας καὶ σωφροσύνης διείλεγμαι· περὶ δὲ τοῦ ῥηθήσεσθαι μέλλοντος ἀμφίδοξός εἰμι καὶ διχογνώμων, καὶ τῇδε κἀκεῖσε μετακλίνων ὡς ἐπὶ πλάστιγγος πρὸς οὐδέτερον ῥέψαι δ …

Hyperides, Funeral Oration 1: τῶν μὲν λόγων τῶν μελλόντων ῥηθήσεςθαι ἐπὶ τῷδε τῷ τάφῳ περί τε Λεωσθένους τοῦ στρατηγοῦ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν μετʼ ἐκείνου τετελευτηκότων ἐν τῷ πο …

All forms of ἐρῶ (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.