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θνητά (thneta)

θνητά is an Ancient Greek form of θνητός, meaning “mortal”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 75 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.5.26: … ρίῳ τραγικῶς ἅμα καὶ συμπαθῶς γράψαι. καὶ προεφέρετο τὸν στίχον τὸν ἐκ τοῦ Βελλεροφόντου· οἴμοι· τί δʼ οἴμοι; θνητά τοι πεπόνθαμεν. λέγεται δὲ καὶ Ἀνταγόρα τοῦ ποιητοῦ ὡς Κράντορος εἰς Ἔρωτα πεποιημένα φέρεσθαι ταυτί· ἐν δοιῇ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 24.83: μόχθους, θνητὰ δὲ πάντα πυρὰ Τραχίνιος ἑξεῖ.

All forms of θνητός (declension 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.