ἀμύνασθαι (amynasthai)

ἀμύνασθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀμύνω, meaning “ward off, defend; (mid.) defend oneself, repay”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

Found 137 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.24.1: … ἴπῃ ἢ ἐπιψηφίσῃ κινεῖν τὰ χρήματα ταῦτα ἐς ἄλλο τι, ἢν μὴ οἱ πολέμιοι νηίτῃ στρατῷ ἐπιπλέωσι τῇ πόλει καὶ δέῃ ἀμύνασθαι, θάνατον ζημίαν ἐπέθεντο.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 39.43.2: αὐτοί τε οὖν ἐτιτρώσκοντο καὶ ἀπέθνησκον καὶ οἱ μηδὲ ἀμύνασθαί τινα δυνάμενοι, καὶ τὰ σκάφη τὰ μὲν ἀνερρήγνυτο ἐμβαλλόμενα τὰ δὲ κατεπίμπρατο ὑφαπτόμενα· ἄλλα ἀναδούμενα ὥσπερ

All forms of ἀμύνω (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.