οἰηθείη (oietheie)

οἰηθείη is an Ancient Greek form of οἴομαι, meaning “think, suppose, expect”. It is the 3rd person singular passive optative.

It can also be a form of οἰάω, “steer”.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Fato 9·2: … ὴν τοῦ παντὸς φύσιν ἔδειξε, νόμους τε τοὺς εἱμαρμένους εἶπεν αὐταῖς· ταῦτα τίς οὐκ ἂν διαρρήδην καὶ σαφέστατʼ οἰηθείη τὴν εἱμαρμένην δηλοῦν, ὥσπερ τινὰ βάσιν καὶ πολιτικὴν νομοθεσίαν ταῖς ἀνθρωπίναις ψυχαῖς προσήκουσαν, ἧς δὴ κ …

All forms of οἴομαι (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.