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σῷζε (soze)

σῷζε is an Ancient Greek form of σώζω, meaning “save, keep safe”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 1119c: σῷζέ νυν, καὶ τὸν Διὸς

Euripides, Medea 961: δοκεῖς δὲ χρυσοῦ; σῷζε, μὴ δίδου τάδε.

Plutarch, Agesilaus 39.3: … αίῳ μέτρῳ διαμάχεσθαι πρὸς αὐτούς, φέρε νῦν, προθυμηθεὶς ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸς γενέσθαι καὶ μεθʼ ἡμῶν ἐπισπόμενος δρόμῳ σῶζε σεαυτὸν ἅμα καὶ τὴν στρατιάν.

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.