διώκει (diokei)

διώκει is an Ancient Greek form of διώκω, meaning “pursue, chase; prosecute”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

It can also be a form of διοικέω, “manage, administer, govern”.

Found 114 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.110: καὶ πτῶκας βάλλει καὶ θηρία πάντα διώκει.

Plutarch, Pericles 16.4: τοὺς γὰρ ἐπετείους καρποὺς ἃπαντας ἀθρόους ἐπίπρασκεν, εἶτα τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἕκαστον ἐξ ἀγορᾶς ὠνούμενος διῴκει τὸν βίον καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν δίαιταν. ὅθεν οὐχ ἡδὺς ἦν ἐνηλίκοις παισὶν οὐδὲ γυναιξὶ δαψιλὴς χορηγός, ἀλλʼ ἐμέμφο …

All forms of διώκω (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.