- ἐκθνῄσκω
- ἐκθνῄσκω, [tense] fut. -θᾰνοῦμαι : [tense] aor. ἐξέθᾰνον :—A 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. 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.HA521a11, 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.VC19
.4 c.acc., to be terrified of,τὰς νόσους ἐκτεθνήκασι Phld. Herc.1251.18
.II later,=ἀποθνῄσκω, Luc.Hist.Conscr. 27, Aret.SD2.13, D.C.48.37.
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