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θάνῃ (thane)

θάνῃ is an Ancient Greek form of θνήσκω, meaning “die, be dying”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active subjunctive.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.55: … ν ἔμιμνεν, ἦν ἂν εἰκὸς λέγειν, φρονεῖν ὅπως δοκεῖ· κακῶς μέν, ἀλλʼ ἔδοξε. νῦν δʼ ἐς νόσον πεσὼν μακρὴν καὶ μὴ θάνῃ δεδοικὼς ὁ μὴ θεοὺς εἶναι λέγων, ὁ νηὸν οὐδὲ βλέψας,

Euripides, Alcestis 247: οὐδὲν θεοὺς δράσαντας ἀνθ’ ὅτου θανῇ.

All forms of θνήσκω (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.