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οἰόμενος (oiomenos)

οἰόμενος is an Ancient Greek form of οἴομαι, meaning “think, suppose, expect”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 326 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.113.3: καί τις αὐτὸν ἤρετο ὅτι θαυμάζοι καὶ ὁπόσοι αὐτῶν τεθνᾶσιν, οἰόμενος αὖ ὁ ἐρωτῶν εἶναι τὸν κήρυκα ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν Ἰδομεναῖς. ὁ δ’ ἔφη διακοσίους μάλιστα. ὑπολαβὼν δ’ ὁ ἐρωτῶν εἶπεν ‘οὔκουν τὰ ὅπλα ταυτὶ φαίνεται,

Aesop, Fables 275: … παιδίου κλαίοντος, καὶ γραὸς λεγούσης αὐτῷ· „παῦσαι τοῦ κλαίειν· εἰ δὲ μὴ, τῇ ὥρᾳ ταύτῃ ἐπιδώσω σε τῷ λύκῳ.“ Οἰόμενος δὴ ὁ λύκος, ὅτι ἀληθεύει ἡ γραῦς, ἵστατο πολλὴν ἐκδεχόμενος ὥραν. Ὡς δʼ ἑσπέρα κατέλαβεν, ἀκούει πάλιν τῆς γρ …

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.