ἀποθνήσκουσιν (apothneskousin)

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

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.34.1: … στα ὁρμήσασαι τρεῖς διαφθείρονται καὶ ἐκπίπτουσι πρὸς τὴν πόλιν τῶν Χίων, καὶ ἄνδρες οἱ μὲν ἁλίσκονται, οἱ δ’ ἀποθνῄσκουσιν, αἱ δ’ ἄλλαι καταφεύγουσιν ἐς τὸν ὑπὸ τῷ Μίμαντι λιμένα Φοινικοῦντα καλούμενον. ἐντεῦθεν δ’ ὕστερον ἐς τὴν Λέ …

Plutarch, Demetrius 40.2: … υς οὐκ ἀναγκαίως τούτους περιορῶμεν; ὁ δὲ παροξυνθείς, σὺ δέ, ἔφη, τί δυσχεραίνεις; ἢ διάμετρον ὀφείλεις τοῖς ἀποθνήσκουσιν;

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.