ΖΗ (ZE)

ΖΗ is an Ancient Greek form of ζάω, meaning “live”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 514 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.69: … πὶ τῷ πολυτελῶς ζῆν ὑπὸ Πλάτωνος, ἔφη, ἆρα φαίνεταί σοι Διονύσιος ἀγαθός; τοῦ δʼ ὁμολογήσαντος, καὶ μήν, ἔφη, ζῇ ἐμοῦ πολυτελέστερον· ὥστʼ οὐδὲν κωλύει καὶ πολυτελῶς καὶ καλῶς ζῆν. ἐρωτηθεὶς τίνι διαφέρουσιν οἱ πεπαιδευμέν …

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 699: ἀλλʼ ἕρπε καὶ ζῆ καὶ δόμους οἴκει πατρός.

Plato, Republic 8.561: … τρεφομένου τὴν τῶν μὴ ἀναγκαίων καὶ ἀνωφελῶν ἡδονῶν ἐλευθέρωσίν τε καὶ ἄνεσιν; καὶ μάλα γʼ, ἦ δʼ ὅς, ἐναργῶς. Ζῇ δὴ οἶμαι μετὰ ταῦτα ὁ τοιοῦτος οὐδὲν μᾶλλον εἰς ἀναγκαίους ἢ μὴ ἀναγκαίους ἡδονὰς ἀναλίσκων καὶ χρήματα καὶ π …

All forms of ζάω (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.