ἀπολεῖσθαι (apoleisthai)

ἀπολεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπόλλυμι, meaning “destroy utterly, kill; (mid.) perish”. It is the future middle infinitive.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 18.3: … ῆς καὶ βίαν καὶ θυμὸν ἐκπεπληγμένων τῶν διὰ μέσου, καὶ τήν τε χώραν ἀπολωλέναι πᾶσαν ἤδη καὶ τὰς πόλεις εὐθὺς ἀπολεῖσθαι δοκούντων, παρʼ ἐλπίδας οὐδὲν ἠδίκουν οὐδʼ ἐλάμβανον ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ παρὰ τὰς πόλεις ἐγγὺς παρεξιόντες …

Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.26.8: … ν φολίδων ἄγκιστρον ἐς τὸ ἄνω νεῦον· τοῦτον τὸν θώρακα ἐνδὺς παρέδωκε τῷ δράκοντι ἑκουσίως αὑτόν, παραδοὺς δὲ ἀπολεῖσθαί τε καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπολεῖν ἔμελλε τὸ θηρίον. ἀντὶ τούτου μὲν τῷ Διὶ γέγονεν ἐπίκλησις Σαώτης· τὸ δὲ ἄγαλμα τὸ Διονύ …

All forms of ἀπόλλυμι (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.