ἀσθενέω (astheneo)

ἀσθενέω means “be weak, be sick”.

Ancient Greek word, found 168 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.47.2: νόσῳ τε γὰρ ἐπιέζοντο κατ’ ἀμφότερα, τῆς τε ὥρας τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ταύτης οὔσης ἐν ᾗ ἀσθενοῦσιν ἄνθρωποι μάλιστα, καὶ τὸ χωρίον ἅμα ἐν ᾧ ἐστρατοπεδεύοντο ἑλῶδες καὶ χαλεπὸν ἦν, τά τε ἄλλα ὅτι ἀνέλπιστα αὐτοῖς ἐφαίνετο.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.17.133: … δὲ τὸ πρωτεῖον ἀπεδίδου. ὅθεν καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἀντιπολιτευομένους ταῦτα, φασί, προεφέρετο· ἡλίσκετʼ ἆρα καὶ πρὸς ἀσθενῶν ταχύς, καὶ πρὸς χελώνης ἀετὸς βραχεῖ χρόνῳ.

Euripides, Orestes 228: μανίας, ἄναρθρός εἰμι κἀσθενῶ μέλη.

All forms of ἀσθενέω (conjugation)

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.