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δίψει (dipsei)

δίψει is an Ancient Greek form of δίψος, meaning “thirst”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marius 30.3: … συνισταμένων καὶ ἀγανακτούντων ἐξήνεγκεν εἰς ἀγορὰν τὰ ὅπλα, καὶ καταδιωχθέντας αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ Καπετώλιον εἷλε δίψει· τοὺς γὰρ ὀχετοὺς ἀπέκοψεν, οἱ δ’ ἀπειπόντες ἐκεῖνον ἐκάλουν καὶ παρέδωκαν σφᾶς αὐτοὺς διὰ τῆς λεγομένης δημο …

Arrian, Indica 13.8: … λάσαντες δὲ οὐκ αὐτίκα μάχης ἅπτονται, ἀλλὰ ἐῶσι γὰρ λιμῷ τε ταλαιπωρηθῆναι τοὺς ἀγρίους ἐλέφαντας καὶ ὑπὸ τῷ δίψεϊ δουλωθῆναι.

All forms of δίψος (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.