A.liable to death, mortal, opp. ἀθάνατος, freq. in Hom., Od.5.213, al.; “θ. ἄνδρες” Hes. Th.967; “οὐδὲν . . θνητὸν ἐόν” Hdt.8.98; “ζῷα πάντα θ. καὶ φυτά” Pl.Sph. 265c: as Subst., θνητοί mortals, Od.19.593, etc.; θνηταί mortal women, 5.213; πάντων τῶν θ. of all mortal creatures, Hdt.1.216, 2.68; εἴ τις φθόγγος （φθόγγον cod., but θ. is only used of living persons) “εἰσακούεται θνητῶν παρ᾽ Ἅιδῃ” E.HF491: Comp., “ἐν θνητῷ ὄντες, ἔτι θνητοτέρους ἑαυτοὺς ποιοῦντες” Porph.Abst.4.20: Sup., “θνητότατος πάντων” Plot.5.1.1.
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θνητός , ή, όν, also ός, όν E.Ion973,IA901, 1396: Dor. θνα_τός (v. infr.): Aeol. θνᾶτος Sapph.Supp.13.7: (θνῄσκω):—
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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