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ἀποθνῄσκων (apothneskon)

ἀποθνῄσκων is an Ancient Greek form of ἀποθνήσκω, meaning “die, be killed”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.46: … παρατελωνησάμενός τι πανοίκιος ἐπράθη μεθʼ ἡμῶν. καί με ἀγοράζει τις ῥήτωρ νεώτερον ὄντα καὶ εὔχαριν· ὃς καὶ ἀποθνήσκων κατέλιπέ μοι πάντα.

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 27.33: ἀποθνῄσκων δὲ πρὸς τοὺς ἑταίρους ἀπιδὼν ἔφη μέγαν ὁρῶ μου τὸν ἐπιτάφιον ἐσόμενον.

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.