ὀκνήσω (okneso)

ὀκνήσω is an Ancient Greek form of ὀκνέω, meaning “hesitate, shrink from”. It is the 1st person singular aorist active subjunctive.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute 2.4: … δʼ εἶπεν ἡ σὴ δύναμις ἢ πρᾶξις, ἄν σού τις ἀφέλῃ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον; ἐγὼ δὲ τοῦτʼ εἰπεῖν πρὸς τὴν τότε Τύχην οὐκ ὀκνήσω τί σου τὸ μέγεθος, τίς δʼ ἡ δόξα, ποῦ δʼ ἡ δύναμις, ποῦ δὲ τὸ ἀνίκητον, ἄν σού τις ἀφέλῃ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον; τουτ …

Appianus of Alexandria, Mithridatic Wars 8.57: … ὼν ἐπαύσατο, ὁ δὲ Σύλλας ὑπολαβὼν ἀπεκρίνατο· ἐφʼ ἕτερα μὲν ἡμᾶς ἐκάλεις, ὡς τὰ προτεινόμενα ἀγαπήσων, οὐ μὴν ὁκνήσω καὶ περὶ τῶνδε διὰ βραχέων εἰπεῖν. ἐς μὲν Καππαδοκίαν ἐγὼ κατήγαγον Ἀριοβαρζάνην Κιλικίας ἄρχων, ὧδε Ῥωμαίων …

All forms of ὀκνέω (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.