φοβοῦνται (phobountai)

φοβοῦνται is an Ancient Greek form of φοβέω, meaning “frighten; (mid.) flee, be afraid”. It is the 3rd person plural present middle/passive indicative.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.91.6: τειχίζειν τε χρὴ Δεκέλειαν τῆς Ἀττικῆς, ὅπερ Ἀθηναῖοι μάλιστα αἰεὶ φοβοῦνται, καὶ μόνου αὐτοῦ νομίζουσι τῶν ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ οὐ διαπεπειρᾶσθαι. βεβαιότατα δ’ ἄν τις οὕτω τοὺς πολεμίους βλάπτ …

Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 8.6: … ν μαλακῷ χωρίῳ διδάσκειν, καὶ τελευτῶν, ἐπειδὰν τοῦτο ἐθισθῇ, πολὺ ἥδιον τὸ πρανὲς τοῦ ὀρθίου δραμεῖται. ἃ δὲ φοβοῦνταί τινες μὴ ἀπορρηγνύωνται τοὺς ὤμους κατὰ τὰ πρανῆ ἐλαυνόμενοι, θαρρούντων μαθόντες ὅτι Πέρσαι καὶ Ὀδρύσαι ἅπαν …

All forms of φοβέω (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.