θύων (thyon)

θύων is an Ancient Greek form of θύω, meaning “sacrifice; rush, rage”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 3.4: … ν, οἷον λεπταῖς ἀμυχαῖς τὰς διαφυὰς ὑπογεγραμμένον τῶν ὀδόντων. τοῖς δὲ σπληνιῶσιν ἐδόκει βοηθεῖν, ἀλεκτρυόνα θύων λευκόν, ὑπτίων τε κατακειμένων τῷ δεξιῷ ποδὶ πιέζων ἀτρέμα τὸ σπλάγχνον. οὐδεὶς δὲ ἦν πένης οὐδὲ ἄδοξος οὕτως …

Julian, Emperor of Rome, The Caesars 2: Μανθάνοις ἄν. Θύων ὁ Ῥωμύλος τὰ Κρόνια πάντας ἐκάλει τοὺς θεούς, καὶ δὴ καὶ αὐτοὺς τοὺς καίσαρας. κλῖναι δὲ ἐτύγχανον παρεσκευασ …

All forms of θύω (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.