δεήσεσθαι (deesesthai)

δεήσεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of δέω, meaning “lack, need; (mid.) need, ask for”. It is the future middle infinitive.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.8.1: τοῦ δ’ ἐπιγιγνομένου θέρους ἅμα ἦρι οἱ τῶν Ἀθηναίων πρέσβεις ἧκον ἐκ τῆς Σικελίας καὶ οἱ Ἐγεσταῖοι μετ’ αὐτῶν ἄγοντες ἑξήκοντα τάλαντα ἀσήμου ἀργυρίου ὡς ἐς ἑξήκοντα ναῦς μηνὸς μισθόν, ἃς ἔμελλον δεήσεσθαι πέμπειν.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 6.58.1: … ρᾳ, οὐδʼ ἐπὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς εἴκαζε συμβήσεσθαι τὸν δῆμον ἀπαλλαγὴν μόνον τῶν χρεῶν αἰτούμενον, ἀλλὰ καὶ βοηθείας δεήσεσθαί τινος ἴσως, ἀφʼ ἧς εἰς τὸν λοιπὸν χρόνον ἀσφαλὴς διατελέσει·

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.