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θέλουσι (thelousi)

θέλουσι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐθέλω, meaning “to wish, be willing”. It is the present active participle dative plural masculine.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 702: τοῖς μὴ θέλουσι δρᾶν τάδʼ, αὐτὸς ὢν κακός;

Marcus Aurelius, Ad Se Ipsum 10.36.1: … ύτου βίου ἀπέρχομαι, ἐν ᾧ αὐτοὶ οἱ κοινωνοί, ὑπὲρ ὧν τὰ τοσαῦτα ἠγωνισάμην, ηὐξάμην, ἐφρόντισα, αὐτοὶ ἐκεῖνοι θέλουσί με ὑπάγειν, ἄλλην τινὰ τυχὸν ἐκ τούτου ῥᾳστώνην ἐλπίζοντες. τί ἂν οὖν τις ἀντέχοιτο τῆς ἐνταῦθα μακροτέρας δι …

All forms of ἐθέλω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.