μελλήσει (mellesei)

μελλήσει is an Ancient Greek form of μέλλησις, meaning “delay, hesitation”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.69.4: ἡσυχάζετε γάρ, μόνοι Ἑλλήνων, ὦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, οὐ τῇ δυνάμει τινά, ἀλλὰ τῇ μελλήσει ἀμυνόμενοι, καὶ μόνοι οὐκ ἀρχομένην τὴν αὔξησιν τῶν ἐχθρῶν διπλασιουμένην δὲ καταλύοντες.

Procopius, De Bellis 6.21.12: Οὐδέν τι δὲ ἧσσον οἱ ἀμφὶ Μαρτῖνον ὄκνῳ ἐχόμενοι αὐτοῦ ἔμενον, χρόνος τε πολὺς ταύτῃ δὴ τῇ μελλησει ἐτρίβετο.

All forms of μέλλησις (declension 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.