ἐκθνῄσκω,fut. -θᾰνοῦμαι:aor. ἐξέθᾰνον:—
A. die away, to be like to die, γέλῳ(forγέλωτι)ἔκθανον were like to diewith laughing, Od. 18.100 ; ὁρῶντες ἐξέθνῃσκον ἐπὶ τῷ πράγματι
Antiph. 190.7
; ὑπὸ γέλωτος ἐ.
Plu. 2.54c
; ὑπὸ τοῦ δέους
Luc. Icar. 23
, etc.
2. to be in a death-like swoon, ἐξέθανε πεντάκις ὥστε τεθνάναι δοκέειν,
Hp. Epid. 5.42 , cf. Philem. 1.6
D. ;ὁ ἐκτεθνεώς,opp.ὁ ὄντως τεθνηκώς,
Pl. Lg. 959a ; opp.ἀποθνῄσκειν,
Arist. HA 521a11 , cf. Pr. 962b4 :—so in S. Tr. 568 (though Nessus was really dying)ἐκθνῄσκωνmay retain its usual sense,fainting away, at the point of death.
3. become mortified,
τὸ φλεγμαῖνον ἐκτέθνηκεν