οἰηθείς (oietheis)

οἰηθείς is an Ancient Greek form of οἴομαι, meaning “think, suppose, expect”. It is the aorist passive participle nominative singular masculine.

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

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 986: ἣ πρῶτα μέν σε γαμβρὸν οἰηθεῖσʼ ἔχειν,

Plutarch, Aristides 5.6: τούτῳ γάρ τις, ὡς ἔοικε, τῶν βαρβάρων προσέπεσεν οἰηθεὶς βασιλέα διὰ τὴν κόμην καὶ τὸ στρόφιον εἶναι· προσκυνήσας δὲ καὶ λαβόμενος τῆς δεξιᾶς ἔδειξε πολὺ χρυσίον ἐν λ …

Lucian of Samosata, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia 21: … ν νόμων, τὴν παρὰ ταύτης ἀηδίαν μυσαχθεὶς καὶ ἥν φησι κεφάλαιον τῶν πόνων τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν παραγίγνεσθαι λῆρον οἰηθείς, τοὺς μὲν ἀγκύλους ἐκείνους λόγους καὶ λαβυρίνθοις ὁμοίους ἀπέφυγε, πρὸς δὲ τὴν Ἡδονὴν ἄσμενος ἐδραπέτευσεν ὥ …

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.