ἀσθενεῖς (astheneis)

ἀσθενεῖς is an Ancient Greek form of ἀσθενής, meaning “weak”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 110 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.35.5: … υμφέροντα ἀποδείκνυμεν, καὶ μέγιστον ὅτι οἵ τε αὐτοὶ πολέμιοι ἡμῖν ἦσαν, ὅπερ σαφεστάτη πίστις, καὶ οὗτοι οὐκ ἀσθενεῖς, ἀλλ’ ἱκανοὶ τοὺς μεταστάντας βλάψαι· καὶ ναυτικῆς καὶ οὐκ ἠπειρώτιδος τῆς ξυμμαχίας διδομένης οὐχ ὁμοία ἡ ἀλ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 3.9.5: … γράψωμεν αὐτὰ ἐν ταῖς ὁμολογίαις οὐδʼ ἐὰν ὀμόσωμεν ἀμφότεροι καθʼ ἱερῶν, ʽμικραὶ γὰρ αὗταί γε αἱ φυλακαὶ καὶ ἀσθενεῖσʼ ἀλλʼ ἐὰν κοινὰς ἡγησώμεθα τὰς ἀλλήλων τύχας. ἓν γάρ ἐστι μόνον, ὦ Φουφέττιε, λύπης ἀνθρωπίνης ἐπʼ ἀλλοτρίοις …

All forms of ἀσθενής (declension 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.