Related to: πνίγ-ω [ῑ],
[[ 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 68, +others, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.1.6, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 4.31, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: imperfect ἔπνῑγον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1376: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]future πνίξω (ἀπο-) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 198, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 171 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialect 2nd pers. plural future πνιξεῖσθε [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 155: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἔπνιξα, imperative πνῖξον, [[ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 27, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.92, Batrachomyomachia 158 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, future πνῐγήσομαι [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “περὶ φυσικῶν δυνάμεων - Scripta Minora” 1.17, (ἀπο-) 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1504, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 3.16; also ἀπο-πεπνίξομαι 4th-5th c.AD: Eunapius Historicus “Vitae Sophistarum” p.463 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἐπνίχθην (ἀπ-) [[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων ὀξέων παθῶν” 1.7 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but ἐπνίγην [ῐ] [[ Batrachomyomachia 148, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.11, (ἀπ-) 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 159, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 512a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 32.6, etc.: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]perfect πέπνιγμαι, see #11.—The simple verb is less frequently than the compound ἀποπνίγω:— choke, throttle, strangle, Sophr.[same place], etc.; of a doctor, πνίγων.. πικρότατα πόματα διδούς [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 522a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἂν ὕλη πνίγῃ [τὸν σῖτον] [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 17.14: proverbial, ὅταν τὸ ὕδωρ πνίγῃ, τί δεῖ ἐπιπίνει; 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1146a35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be choked, stifled, ἐπνιγόμην τὰ σπλάγχνα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1036; αἱ ὑστερικῶς πνιγόμεναι 2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 10.19.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]