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θνητούς (thnetous)

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

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.3.13: … ρὶ μὲν τῆς καταδίκης, ὅτι ἄρα κἀκείνων κἀμοῦ πάλαι ἡ φύσις κατεψηφίσατο, περὶ δὲ τῶν παίδων, ὅτι ᾔδειν αὐτοὺς θνητοὺς γεννήσας. οἱ δʼ εἰς Σόλωνα τοῦτʼ ἀναφέρουσιν, ἄλλοι εἰς Ξενοφῶντα. τοῦτον δὲ καὶ θάψαι ταῖς ἰδίαις χερσὶν αὐτ …

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 29.6: νοσήσας δὲ μακρὰν νόσον ὡς ἀνέρρωσεν οὐδέν ἔφη χεῖρον· ὑπέμνησε γὰρ ἡμᾶς ἡ νόσος μὴ μέγα φρονεῖν ὡς ὄντας θνητούς.

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.