μέλλοντες (mellontes)

μέλλοντες is an Ancient Greek form of μέλλω, meaning “to be about to, intend; delay”. It is the present active participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 113 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.22.1: καὶ ὅσα μὲν λόγῳ εἶπον ἕκαστοι ἢ μέλλοντες πολεμήσειν ἢ ἐν αὐτῷ ἤδη ὄντες, χαλεπὸν τὴν ἀκρίβειαν αὐτὴν τῶν λεχθέντων διαμνημονεῦσαι ἦν ἐμοί τε ὧν αὐτὸς …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 53.24.1: τὸ δὲ δὴ τῶν πολλῶν κίβδηλον καὶ ἐκ τούτου διηλέγχθη ὅτι ἐκεῖνόν τε, ὃν τέως ἐκολάκευον, οὕτω τότε διέθηκαν ὥστε καὶ αὐτοχειρίᾳ ἀποθανεῖν ἀναγκάσαι, καὶ πρὸς τὸν Λάργον ἀπέκλιναν, ἐπειδήπερ αὔξειν ἤρχετο, μέλλοντές που καὶ κατὰ τούτου τὰ αὐτά, ἄν γέ τι τοιοῦτόν οἱ

All forms of μέλλω (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.