ῥεῖν (rhein)

ῥεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of ῥέω, meaning “to flow”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.1.8: … ὴν τὰ πάντα, ἀραιώσει καὶ πυκνώσει γινόμενα. σαφῶς δʼ οὐδὲν ἐκτίθεται. γίνεσθαί τε πάντα κατʼ ἐναντιότητα καὶ ῥεῖν τὰ ὅλα ποταμοῦ δίκην, πεπεράνθαι τε τὸ πᾶν καὶ ἕνα εἶναι κόσμον· γεννᾶσθαί τε αὐτὸν ἐκ πυρὸς καὶ πάλιν ἐκπυρο …

Euripides, Andromache 485: ρεῖν θέλωσι καιρόν.

Hippocrates, De fistulis 10: … ρόπον καταδεῖν. τοῦτο καὶ πρὸς σπληνῶν όδύνην ἀγαθόν. τούτων τῶν καταπλασμάτων δύναται τὰ μὲν ψύχοντα κωλύειν ῤεῖν, τὰ δὲ μαλθάσσοντα καὶ θερμαίνοντα διαχεῖν, τὰ δὲ ἐς ἑωυτὰ ἕλκοντα ξηραίνειν καὶ ἰσχναίνειν. τοῦτο δὲ τὸ νούσ …

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.