θνήσκει (thneskei)

θνήσκει is an Ancient Greek form of θνήσκω, meaning “die, be dying”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 91 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.11.121: … Μαγνήτων, ἵνα νίκην δοίη τοῖς Ἐφέσοιο γενναίοις πολιήταις. ἦν γὰρ χρησμός, ὃν ᾔδει μοῦνος, τοῦτο κελεύων· καὶ θνήσκει παρʼ ἐκείνοις. ἦν οὖν τοῦτʼ ἄρʼ ἀληθές· ἢν ᾖ τις σοφὸς ὄντως, καὶ ζῶν ἐστιν ὄνησις, χὤταν μηδὲν ὑπάρχῃ. Γέγον …

Euripides, Hecuba 773: θνῄσκει δὲ πρὸς τοῦ καὶ τίνος πότμου τυχών;

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 5.360: Θνήσκει δὲ κατʼ ἐκείνην τὴν ἡμέραν καὶ ἡ Φινεέσου τοῦ παιδὸς γυνὴ μὴ καρτερήσασα ζῆν ἐπὶ τῇ τἀνδρὸς δυστυχίᾳ. κυούσῃ …

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.