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σῴζουσι (sozousi)

σῴζουσι is an Ancient Greek form of σώζω, meaning “save, keep safe”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.38.1: ‘ἀλλὰ ταῦτα, ὥσπερ ἐγὼ λέγω, οἵ τε Ἀθηναῖοι γιγνώσκοντες τὰ σφέτερα αὐτῶν εὖ οἶδ’ ὅτι σῴζουσι, καὶ ἐνθένδε ἄνδρες οὔτε ὄντα οὔτε ἂν γενόμενα λογοποιοῦσιν,

Euripides, Helen 266: ἔσῳζον ὥσπερ τὰς κακὰς σῴζουσί μου.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1611: σώζουσί θʼ οὓς φιλοῦσιν. ἦμαρ γὰρ τόδε

All forms of σώζω (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.