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θῦσαι (thysai)

θῦσαι is an Ancient Greek form of θύω, meaning “sacrifice; rush, rage”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 119 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.1.24: … έκτρου.παρά τε Αἰγυπτίων γεωμετρεῖν μαθόντα φησὶ Παμφίλη πρῶτον καταγράψαι κύκλου τὸ τρίγωνον ὀρθογώνιον, καὶ θῦσαι βοῦν.

Euripides, Ion 653: θῦσαί θʼ ἅ σου πρὶν γενέθλιʼ οὐκ ἐθύσαμεν.

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.