ζῶντας (zontas)

ζῶντας is an Ancient Greek form of ζάω, meaning “live”. It is the present active participle accusative plural masculine.

Found 250 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.113.2: πορευομένοις δ’ αὐτοῖς ἐν Κορωνείᾳ ἐπιτίθενται οἵ τε ἐκ τῆς Ὀρχομενοῦ φυγάδες Βοιωτῶν καὶ Λοκροὶ μετ’ αὐτῶν καὶ Εὐβοέων φυγάδες καὶ ὅσοι τῆς αὐτῆς γνώμης ἦσαν, καὶ μάχῃ κρατήσαντες τοὺς μὲν διέφθειραν τῶν Ἀθηναίων, τοὺς δὲ ζῶντας ἔλαβον.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.125: … ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν· ὅταν δʼ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθʼ ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. οὔτε οὖν πρὸς τοὺς ζῶντάς ἐστιν οὔτε πρὸς τοὺς τετελευτηκότας, ἐπειδήπερ περὶ οὓς μὲν οὐκ ἔστιν, οἱ δʼ οὐκέτι εἰσίν. ἀλλʼ οἱ πολλοὶ τὸν …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 5.25·2: … τησεν, Ἰώζαρον ἀδελφὸν γυναικὸς ἰδίας· Ματθίαν δὲ τὸν τὴν στάσιν ἐγείραντα καί τινας τῶν στασιαστῶν κατέκαυσε ζώντας.

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.