δοκοῦσιν (dokousin)

δοκοῦσιν is an Ancient Greek form of δοκέω, meaning “to seem, think”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 365 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.87.2: … λύσθαι αἱ σπονδαὶ καὶ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἀδικεῖν, ἀναστήτω ἐς ἐκεῖνο τὸ χωρίον,’ δείξας τι χωρίον αὐτοῖς, ‘ὅτῳ δὲ μὴ δοκοῦσιν, ἐς τὰ ἐπὶ θάτερα.’ ἀναστάντες δὲ διέστησαν,

Plato, Gorgias 501: … σκοπούμεναι οὔτε μέλον αὐταῖς ἄλλο ἢ χαρίζεσθαι μόνον, εἴτε βέλτιον εἴτε χεῖρον. ἐμοὶ μὲν γάρ, ὦ Καλλίκλεις, δοκοῦσίν τε εἶναι, καὶ ἔγωγέ φημι τὸ τοιοῦτον κολακείαν εἶναι καὶ περὶ σῶμα καὶ περὶ ψυχὴν καὶ περὶ ἄλλο ὅτου ἄν τις τ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 43.15.6: αὐτῶν ἐκεῖνοι παθεῖν δοκοῦσινʼ· ἀλλʼ εἰμί τε τῇ φύσει τοιοῦτος ὁποίου μου ἀεὶ πεπείρασθε (τί γὰρ δεῖ με καθʼ ἕκαστον ἐπεξιόντα ἐπαχθῆ, ὡς καὶ ἐμαυτὸν ἐπαινοῦντα, γενέσθαι;ʼ καὶ τὴν τύχην οὐκ ἂν προπηλακίσαιμι, ἀλλʼ ὅσῳ μᾶλλον ἀγαθῆς αὐτῆς πεπείραμαι, τόσῳ μᾶλλον πρὸς

All forms of δοκέω (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.