ζωῆς (zoes)

ζωῆς is an Ancient Greek form of ζάω, meaning “live”. It is the 2nd person singular present active optative.

Found 388 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.785: κεῖνος ὅτε ζωῆς ἀπαμείρεται. ἐρρέτω αἰδώς,

Euripides, Alcestis 713: καὶ μὴν Διός γε μείζονα ζῴης χρόνον.

Plutarch, Alexander 64.4: … ηθείς πῶς ἄν τις ἐξ ἀνθρώπων γένοιτο θεός, εἴ τι πράξειεν, εἶπεν, ὃ πρᾶξαι δυνατὸν ἀνθρώπῳ μὴ ἔστιν ὁ δὲ περὶ ζῳῆς καὶ θανάτου, πότερον ἰσχυρότερον, ἀπεκρίνατο τὴν ζῳήν τοσαῦτα κακὰ φέρουσαν.

All forms of ζάω (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.