ζῇς (zes)

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

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.65: … των, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν εἰς τὸν βίον μὴ ἁρμόττων; πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα, ἀνεπιτήδειός εἰμι πρὸς φιλοσοφίαν, τί οὖν, ἔφη, ζῇς, εἰ τοῦ καλῶς ζῆν μὴ μέλει σοι; πρὸς τὸν καταφρονοῦντα τοῦ πατρός, οὐκ αἰσχύνῃ, ἔφη, καταφρονῶν τούτου διʼ ὃν …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isaeo 20: … κ ἀπολέλοιπε λόγους, τὰ δὲ αὐτὰ καὶ περὶ Κριτίου καὶ περὶ Ζωΐλου τις ἂν εἰπεῖν ἔχοι πλὴν ὅσον τοῖς χαρακτῆρσι Ζῆς ἑρμηνείας διαλλάττουσιν ἀλλήλων· τούτων δή, φημί, τῶν ἀνδρῶν καὶ τῶν παραπλησίων τούτοις διαφέρειν οἰόμενος Λ …

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.