δείσας (deisas)

δείσας is an Ancient Greek form of δείδω, meaning “fear, be afraid”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 384 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1387: δείσας γειομόρος, μή οἱ προτάμωνται ἀρούρας,

Euripides, Suppliants 300: δείσασʼ ἀφήσω τῷ φόβῳ τοὐμὸν καλόν.

Flavius Josephus, Life of Josephus 20: Δείσας οὖν, μὴ ταῦτα συνεχῶς λέγων διὰ μίσους ἀφικοίμην καὶ ὑποψίας ὡς τὰ τῶν πολεμίων φρονῶν καὶ κινδυνεύσω ληφθεὶς ὑπʼ αὐτῶν ἀναιρεθῆναι, ἐχομένης ἤδη τῆς Ἀντωνίας, ὅπερ ἦν φρούριον, εἰς τὸ ἐνδοτέρω ἱερὸν ὑπεχώρησα.

All forms of δείδω (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.