δείκνυσιν (deiknysin)

δείκνυσιν is an Ancient Greek form of δείκνυμι, meaning “show, point out, display”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 66 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.4.77: μέμνηται αὐτοῦ καὶ Πλάτων ἐν Πρωταγόρᾳ· ἀνάγκᾳ δʼ οὐδὲ θεοὶ μάχονται. καὶ ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσιν. ἐρωτηθεὶς δέ ποτε τί ἄριστον, τὸ παρὸν εὖ ποιεῖν. καὶ ὑπὸ Κροίσου τίς ἀρχὴ μεγίστη, ἡ τοῦ ποικίλου, ἔφη, ξύλ …

Arrian, Indica 28.7: Νέαρχος δὲ τὸν μὲν Ἀρχίην κελεύει καταλαβεῖν τὰς πύλας καὶ τὸ κατʼ αὐτὰς τεῖχος, αὐτὸς δὲ συμπέμπει τοὺς κατοψομένους τὸν σῖτον εἰ ἀδόλως δεικνῦσιν.

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 4.9.3: εἴ τις οὖν κατηγορεῖ καὶ δείκνυσίν τι παρὰ τοὺς νόμους πράττοντας, οὕτως ὅριζε κατὰ τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ ἁμαρτήματος· ὡς μὰ τὸν Ἡρακλέα εἴ τις συκοφα …

All forms of δείκνυμι (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.