ἀποθνήσκω,
future -θᾰνοῦμαι, Ionic dialect -θανέομαι or -εῦμαι[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.143, 7.134:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —strengthened for θνῄσκω, die, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (see. below), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.27, and once in Trag. (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 578.6)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in Comedy texts and Prose the usual form of the present; σεῦ ἀποτεθνηῶτος[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.432; ἀποθνῄσκων περὶ φασγάνῳ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.424; βόες δ᾽ ἀποτέθνασαν ἤδη 12.393; ἐκ τῶν τρωμάτων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.63; ὑπὸ λιμοῦ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.126: with _dative_, βρόμῳ κεραυνοῦ Pi.[same place] ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; νόσῳ[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.84: with _accusative_ _cognate_, θάνατον ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.8.3, etc.; εἰς ἕτερον ζῆν ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 365d] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to be ready to die, of laughter, etc., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 15; ἀ. τῷ δέει 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Magna Moralia” 1191a35. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II serving as passive of ἀποκτείνω, to be put to death, slain, ὑπό τινος[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.137, 7.154] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially by judicial sentence, ἀποθανεῖν ὑπὸ τῆς πόλεως[[ 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 93, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 29d, 32d, +others, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1397a30 (variant). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III renounce, νόμῳ[[ NT.Gal.2.19; ἀπό τινος NT.Col.2.20.] NT]