ἀποθανεῖν (apothanein)

ἀποθανεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀποθνήσκω, meaning “die, be killed”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 630 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.20.2: Ἀθηναίων γοῦν τὸ πλῆθος Ἵππαρχον οἴονται ὑφ’ Ἁρμοδίου καὶ Ἀριστογείτονος τύραννον ὄντα ἀποθανεῖν, καὶ οὐκ ἴσασιν ὅτι Ἱππίας μὲν πρεσβύτατος ὢν ἦρχε τῶν Πεισιστράτου υἱέων, Ἵππαρχος δὲ καὶ Θεσσαλὸς ἀδελφοὶ ἦ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 2.53.1: … οῖς ἐργασαμένοις τὸ μύσος ὕδατος εἴργεσθαι καὶ πυρός ʽἐπεφεύγεσαν γὰρ ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἅπαντες ἅμα τῷ τὸν Τάτιον ἀποθανεῖνʼ καὶ τῶν Λαουινιατῶν τοὺς συστάντας ἐπὶ τὸν Τάτιον δικαστηρίῳ παραδοὺς ἐκδοθέντας ὑπὸ τῆς πόλεως, ἐπειδὴ δικαι …

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.