μέλλῃ (melle)

μέλλῃ is an Ancient Greek form of μέλλω, meaning “to be about to, intend; delay”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 99 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.72.3: … οδώσομεν ὑμῖν ἃ ἂν παραλάβωμεν. μέχρι δὲ τοῦδε ἕξομεν παρακαταθήκην, ἐργαζόμενοι καὶ φορὰν φέροντες ἣ ἂν ὑμῖν μέλλῃ ἱκανὴ ἔσεσθαι.’

Hippocrates, De capitis vulneribus 15: … οντί τι σίνος ὑπὸ τοῦ βέλεος, δοκέοντι δὲ ὑγιεῖ εἶναι, κίνδυνός ἐστι μᾶλλον ὑπόπυον γενέσθαι (ἢν καὶ ἄλλως μὴ μέλλᾐ, ἢν καὶ ἡ σὰρξ ἡ περιέχουσα τὸ ὀστέον κακῶς θεραπεύηται, καὶ φλεγμαίνηται, καὶ περισφίγγηται· πυρετῶδες γὰρ γ …

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.