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ἀπολεῖται (apoleitai)

ἀπολεῖται is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπόλλυμι, meaning “destroy utterly, kill; (mid.) perish”. It is the 3rd person singular future middle indicative.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.55.2: ἦλθε δ’ ἐς τὴν Ῥόδον καὶ Ξενοφαντίδας Λάκων παρὰ Πεδαρίτου ἐκ Χίου, λέγων ὅτι τὸ τεῖχος τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἤδη ἐπιτετέλεσται, καὶ εἰ μὴ βοηθήσουσι πάσαις ταῖς ναυσίν, ἀπολεῖται τὰ ἐν Χίῳ πράγματα. οἱ δὲ διενοοῦντο βοηθήσειν.

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 71: Οἷά με εἰργάσω, ὦ Λυκῖνε, ἄνθρακάς μοι τὸν θησαυρὸν ἀποφήνας, καὶ ὡς ἔοικεν ἀπολεῖταί μοι τὰ τοσαῦτα ἔτη καὶ ὁ κάματος ὁ πολύς. Ἀλλ', ὦ Ἑρμότιμε, πολὺ ἔλαττον ἀνιάσῃ, ἢν ἐννοήσῃς ὅτι οὐ μόνος ἔξω …

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.