ἀπέθνῃσκον (apethneskon)

ἀπέθνῃσκον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀποθνήσκω, meaning “die, be killed”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 80 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.126.10: ὁ μὲν οὖν Κύλων καὶ ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ ἐκδιδράσκουσιν· οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι ὡς ἐπιέζοντο καί τινες καὶ ἀπέθνῃσκον ὑπὸ τοῦ λιμοῦ, καθίζουσιν ἐπὶ τὸν βωμὸν ἱκέται τὸν ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει.

Plutarch, Lysander 11.5: … οποννήσιοι τὰς μὲν κενὰς παντάπασιν ᾕρουν, τὰς δʼ ἔτι πληρουμένας ἔκοπτον. οἱ δὲ ἄνθρωποι πρός τε ταῖς ναυσὶν ἀπέθνησκον ἄνοπλοι καὶ σποράδες ἐπιβοηθοῦντες, ἔν τε τῇ γῇ φεύγοντες ἀποβάντων τῶν πολεμίων ἐκτείνοντο.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 8.88.3: … τʼ αὐτῶν ἐγίνοντο καὶ πληγαί, καὶ τὸ νικᾶν οὐκ ἀεὶ παρὰ τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἔμενε· πολλάκις δὲ συμπλεκομένων ἀλλήλοις ἀπέθνησκόν τʼ οὐκ ὀλίγοι καὶ τραυματίαι πλείους ἐγίνοντο.

All forms of ἀποθνήσκω (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.