πλεῖ (plei)

πλεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of πλέω, meaning “sail”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.28.1: ὁ δὲ Νικίας τῶν τε Ἀθηναίων τι ὑποθορυβησάντων ἐς τὸν Κλέωνα, ὅτι οὐ καὶ νῦν πλεῖ, εἰ ῥᾴδιόν γε αὐτῷ φαίνεται, καὶ ἅμα ὁρῶν αὐτὸν ἐπιτιμῶντα, ἐκέλευεν ἥντινα βούλεται δύναμιν λαβόντα τὸ ἐπὶ σφᾶς εἶναι ἐπιχειρεῖν.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 12.2.7: … ῦμαι πρὸς αὐ- τῶν, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ θάνατον καλοῦμαι. βοῆς δὲ γενομένης καὶ θορύβου πολλοῦ περὶ τὸ βῆμα συγγνούς, ὅτι πλεί- ους εἰσὶ τῶν βοηθούντων οἱ συλλαμβάνειν μέλλον- τες αὐτόν, καὶ οὐ μακρὰν ἑτέρους ὑποκαθῆσθαι ἐν ὅπλοις, κατα …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 17.224: Πλεῖ δὲ κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν καιρὸν ἐπὶ Ῥώμης καὶ Ἀντίπας Ἡρώδου μὲν παῖς, ἐπὶ δʼ ἀντιποιήσει τῆς ἀρχῆς ὑποσχέσεσι Σαλώ …

All forms of πλέω (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.