ῥεῖ (rhei)

ῥεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of ῥέω, meaning “to flow”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

It can also be a form of ῥεῖα, “easily”.

Found 202 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1353: ἀφρὸς ἀπὸ στόματος χαμάδις ῥεῖ χωομένοιο.

Euripides, Ion 196: ρει τις — ἆρʼ ὃς ἐμαῖσι μυ-

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 1.17·2: … Ῥυήσεσθαι τὸ μὲν τῇδε, τὸ δὲ τῇδε. θαυμαστὸν οὖν οὐδὲν εἶναί φασιν, εἰ τὸ μὲν ὑδατῶδες ὑγρὸν εἰς τοὺς νεφροὺς Ῥεῖ, τὸ δʼ αἷμα διὰ τῆς κοίλης φέρεται κάτω. κατέγνωσται οὖν ἤδη καὶ ἥδε ἡ δόξα. διὰ τί γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς κοίλης μυρίων …

All forms of ῥέω (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.