σῶσαι (sosai)

σῶσαι is an Ancient Greek form of σώζω, meaning “save, keep safe”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 192 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.23.2: … ίρῳ στρατοπεδευόμενοι καὶ προσβολὰς ποιούμενοι τῷ τείχει, σκοποῦντες καιρὸν εἴ τις παραπέσοι ὥστε τοὺς ἄνδρας σῶσαι.

Euripides, Medea 595: ἀλλ’, ὥσπερ εἶπον καὶ πάρος, σῷσαι θέλων

Euripides, Hecuba 1012: σῶσαί σε χρήμαθʼ οἷς συνεξῆλθον θέλω.

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.