[Meaning] bringing one's life to an end forcibly. "In a part of the path they looked about for a Roman soldier longing for death, his body adorned by four wounds".[1]
*dusqanatw=nta: biai/ws to\n bi/on katastre/fonta. e)n de/ tini moi/ra| th=s a)trapou= dusqanatw=nta stratiw/thn *(rwmai=on perieble/yanto, te/trasi bolai=s to\ sw=ma kosmou/menon.
Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras. The headword (extracted from the quotation given) and the gloss are present participles in the masculine accusative singular.
For the verb
dusqanata/w see LSJ s.v.; it is not to be confused with
dusqanate/w (which would give rise to the participle
dusqanatou=nta), I die hard/struggle against death.
[1] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.6.1 (probably via one of the lost books of
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti).
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