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μελλήσας (mellesas)

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

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 15: ταῦτα μὲν οὖν οὐκ ἐνδοιάσας οὐδὲ μελλήσας περὶ τῆς τῶν παίδων εὐκοσμίας καὶ σωφροσύνης διείλεγμαι· περὶ δὲ τοῦ ῥηθήσεσθαι μέλλοντος ἀμφίδοξός εἰμι καὶ …

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.