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θνητῶν (thneton)

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

Found 138 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.43: … αχος Θράσιππος. Καὶ διέθετο μὲν οὕτως. ἐπεγράφη δʼ αὐτοῦ τῷ τάφῳ ἐπιγράμματα τάδε· πρῶτον· σωφροσύνῃ προφέρων θνητῶν ἤθει τε δικαίῳ ἐνθάδε δὴ κεῖται θεῖος Ἀριστοκλέης· εἰ δέ τις ἐκ πάντων σοφίης μέγαν ἔσχεν ἔπαινον τοῦτον ἔχει …

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.