ἀπόλλυσθαι (apollysthai)

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

Found 73 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.1.5: … ου ἤθους κατεσθίεσθαι. τοὺς βουλομένους ἀθανάτους εἶναι ἔφη δεῖν εὐσεβῶς καὶ δικαίως ζῆν. τότʼ ἔφη τὰς πόλεις ἀπόλλυσθαι, ὅταν μὴ δύνωνται τοὺς φαύλους ἀπὸ τῶν σπουδαίων διακρίνειν. ἐπαινούμενός ποτε ὑπὸ πονηρῶν, ἔφη, ἀγωνιῶ μή τι …

Arrian, Indica 30.8: … ἐν τοῖσι βραχέσιν ἐχόμενα, τὰ δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ χειμώνων σκληρῶν ἐς τὴν χέρσον ἐξωθέεσθαι, καὶ οὕτω δὴ κατασηπόμενα ἀπόλλυσθαί τε καὶ τὰς σάρκας αὐτοῖσι περιρρεούσας ὑπολείπειν τὰ ὀστέα χρᾶσθαι τοῖσιν ἀνθρώποισιν ἐς τὰ οἰκία.

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.