δέει (deei)

δέει is an Ancient Greek form of δέος, meaning “fear”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 143 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.26.2: ἐπορεύθησαν δὲ πεζῇ ἐς Ἀπολλωνίαν, Κορινθίων οὖσαν ἀποικίαν, δέει τῶν Κερκυραίων μὴ κωλύωνται ὑπ’ αὐτῶν κατὰ θάλασσαν περαιούμενοι.

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis acutorum morborum libri duo 1.9·2: … ν ὀδμὴν ἀνέχεσθαι· ὠχροὶ ἢ πελιδνοὶ τὰ πρόσωπα, πυρετοὶ ὀξέες, δίψος, ὡς ἐκ πυρός, τὸ δὲ ποτὸν οὐ προσίενται, δέεϊ τῶν ἔνθεν πόνων. ἄσσονται γὰρ, ἢν τοῖσι παρισθμίοισι ἐνθλίβωσι, ἢ ἐς τὰς Ῥῖνας ἀνατρέχῃ. καὶ ἢν μὲν κατακέωντ …

All forms of δέος (declension 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.