μεθύων (methyon)

μεθύων is an Ancient Greek form of μεθύω, meaning “be drunk”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.57: … ὸν ἔχοντος ἐκκόψῃ τις, ἀντεκκόπτειν τοὺς δύο. ἃ μὴ ἔθου, μὴ ἀνέλῃ· εἰ δὲ μή, θάνατος ἡ ζημία. τῷ ἄρχοντι, ἐὰν μεθύων ληφθῇ, θάνατον εἶναι τὴν ζημίαν. Τά τε Ὁμήρου ἐξ ὑποβολῆς γέγραφε ῥαψῳδεῖσθαι, οἷον ὅπου ὁ πρῶτος ἔληξεν, ἐκε …

Aesop, Fables 285: Μεθύων λύχνος [ἐν] ἐλαίῳ καὶ φέγγων, ἐκαυχᾶτο, ὡς ὑπὲρ ἥλιον πλέον λάμπει. Ἀνέμου δὲ πνοῆς συρισάσης, εὐθὺς ἐσβέσθη. …

All forms of μεθύω (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.