σῴζων (sozon)

σῴζων is an Ancient Greek form of σώζω, meaning “save, keep safe”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 527: σῴζων. τί τούτων ἐστὶν οὐ καλῶς ἔχον;

Lucian of Samosata, Phalaris 1.9: … ῖν ἢ ἀδίκως σώζειν τὸν ἐπιβεβουλευκότα; οὐδεὶς οὕτως, οἶμαι, ἀνόητός ἐστιν ὃς οὐκ ἂν προτιμήσειε ζῆν μᾶλλον ἢ σώζων τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἀπολωλέναι. καίτοι πόσους ἐγὼ καὶ τῶν ἐπιχειρησάντων μοι καὶ φανερῶς ἐληλεγμένων ὅμως ἔσωσα; οἷο …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 217·7: … νται, οὐδεὶς ἡμῖν πρὸς αὐτοὺς κοινὸς λόγος. ἡμεῖς γὰρ ἐν λαῷ ἀπειθεῖ καὶ ἀντιλέγοντι δεδιδάγμεθα ἀκούειν, ὅτι Σώζων σῶζε τὴν σεαυτοῦ ψυχήν. μὴ τοίνυν καταδεξώμεθα συναπόλλυσθαι τοῖς τοιούτοις· ἀλλὰ φοβηθέντες τὸ βαρὺ κρίμα, κ …

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.