ἀμύνεσθαι (amynesthai)

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

Found 197 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.40.3: οὐ γὰρ τοῖσδε μόνον ἐπίκουροι ἂν γένοισθε, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡμῖν ἀντὶ ἐνσπόνδων πολέμιοι· ἀνάγκη γάρ, εἰ ἴτε μετ’ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἀμύνεσθαι μὴ ἄνευ ὑμῶν τούτους.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 8.23.2: ὅτι δʼ οὐ μετὰ λογισμοῦ σώφρονος ἐξετάζεις, οὓς ἀμύνεσθαί τε καὶ τιμωρεῖσθαί σοι προσῆκεν, οὐδὲ μετριάζεις περὶ τὴν ἀνάπραξιν τῆς δίκης, ἀλλʼ ἐν ταὐτῷ τίθεσαι τά τʼ ἀν …

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.