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ἐκθνῄσκω

ἐκθνῄσκω, die away, to be like to die

ἐκθνῄσκω, fut. -θᾰνοῦμαι: aor. ἐξέθᾰνον:—
  • die away, to be like to die, γέλῳ (for γέλωτι) ἔκθανον were like to die with laughing, Od. 18.100; ὁρῶντες ἐξέθνῃσκον ἐπὶ τῷ πράγματι Antiph. 190.7; ὑπὸ γέλωτος ἐ. Plu. Adul. 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) ἐκθνῄσκων may retain its usual sense, fainting away, at the point of death.
      • 3 become mortified, τὸ φλεγμαῖνον ἐκτέθνηκεν Hp. VC 19.
      • 4 c. acc., to be terrified of, τὰς νόσους ἐκτεθνήκασι Phld. Herc. 1251.18.
    • II later, = ἀποθνῄσκω, Luc. Hist.Conscr. 27, Aret. SD 2.13, D.C. 48.37.

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