θνήσκουσι (thneskousi)

θνήσκουσι is an Ancient Greek form of θνήσκω, meaning “die, be dying”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 1007: συνθνῄσκειν θνῄσκουσι φίλοις,

Plutarch, Solon 7.3: … μου καὶ γενέσεως παίδων διαλεγομένους, εἶτα τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ παισὶν οἰκοτρίβων ἢ θρέμμασι παλλακῶν νοσοῦσι καὶ θνήσκουσι παρατεινομένους πόθῳ καὶ φωνὰς ἀγεννεῖς ἀφιέντας. ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ κυνῶν θανάτῳ καὶ ἵππων αἰσχρῶς καὶ ἀβιώτως ὑπὸ …

Procopius, De Bellis 1.24.54: θνήσκουσί τε τοῦ δήμου πλέον ἢ τρισμύριοι ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ. βασιλεὺς δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐν φυλακῇ χαλεπῇ ἐκέλευεν εἶναι.

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.