δήσας (desas)

δήσας is an Ancient Greek form of δέω, meaning “lack, need; (mid.) need, ask for”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 84 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.104.2: … σας τινὰ χρόνον ναυτικῷ καὶ τῶν τε ἄλλων νήσων ἄρξας καὶ τὴν Ῥήνειαν ἑλὼν ἀνέθηκε τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τῷ Δηλίῳ ἁλύσει δήσας πρὸς τὴν Δῆλον. καὶ τὴν πεντετηρίδα τότε πρῶτον μετὰ τὴν κάθαρσιν ἐποίησαν οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι τὰ Δήλια.

Aesop, Fables 320: … τοῦ ὄνων τοῦτον ἔστησεν. Ὁ δὲ καταλιπὼν τοὺς ἄλλους ἐπὶ τῷ ἀργοτάτῳ καὶ ἀδδηφάγῳ ἔστη. [καὶ ὃς οὐδὲν ἐποίει.] Δήσας οὖν καὶ ἀπαγαγών, τῷ ἰδίῳ δεσπότῃ τοῦτον παρέδωκε. Τοῦ δὲ ἐρωτῶντος, εἰ οὕτω ταχεῖαν αὐτοῦ τὴν δοκιμασίαν ἐπο …

All forms of δέω (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.