νεῖν (nein)

νεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of νέω, meaning “heap up”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.30.2: καὶ ἀποκτείνουσιν αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ ἐσβάσει τοὺς πλείστους οὔτε ἐπισταμένους νεῖν τῶν τε ἐν τοῖς πλοίοις, ὡς ἑώρων τὰ ἐν τῇ γῇ, ὁρμισάντων ἔξω τοξεύματος τὰ πλοῖα, ἐπεὶ ἔν γε τῇ ἄλλῃ ἀναχωρήσ …

Polybius, Histories 12.6b.1: νειν ἤπερ ἀπελεύθεροι. τοῦτο δὲ μάλιστα περὶ τοὺς Λοκροὺς εἰκός ἐστι γεγονέναι· πολὺ γὰρ ἐκτοπίσαντες ἐκ τῶν συνει …

All forms of νέω (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.