πιεῖν (piein)

πιεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of πίνω, meaning “drink”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 206 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.84.2: καὶ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἠπείγοντο πρὸς τὸν Ἀσσίναρον ποταμόν, ἅμα μὲν βιαζόμενοι ὑπὸ τῆς πανταχόθεν προσβολῆς ἱππέων τε πολλῶν καὶ τοῦ ἄλλου ὄχλου, οἰόμενοι ῥᾷόν τι σφίσιν ἔσεσθαι, ἢν διαβῶσι τὸν ποταμόν, ἅμα δ’ ὑπὸ τῆς ταλαιπωρίας καὶ τοῦ πιεῖν ἐπιθυμίᾳ.

Aesop, Fables 120: … οῦ δράκοντος, αὐτόνομον ἀφῆκε τὸν ἀετόν. Χαλεπήνας δὲ ἐπὶ τούτοις ὁ δράκων, ἰὸν ἀφῆκε τῷ τοῦ σώσαντος πόματι. Πιεῖν δὲ τοῦ γεωργοῦ πρὸς ἄγνοιαν μέλλοντος, ὁ ἀετὸς καταπτὰς τῶν τοῦ γεωργοῦ χειρῶν ἐξαιρεῖται τὴν κύλικα. Τοὺς εὖ …

All forms of πίνω (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.