οἴει (oiei)

οἴει is an Ancient Greek form of οἴομαι, meaning “think, suppose, expect”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 557 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.1.34: … εσεῖν καὶ αὐτῷ ἀνοιμώξαντι φάναι τὴν γραῦν· σὺ γάρ, ὦ Θαλῆ, τὰ ἐν ποσὶν οὐ δυνάμενος ἰδεῖν τὰ ἐπὶ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ οἴει γνώσεσθαι; οἶδε δʼ αὐτὸν ἀστρονομούμενον καὶ Τίμων, καὶ ἐν τοῖς Σίλλοις ἐπαινεῖ αὐτὸν λέγων· οἷόν θʼ ἑπτὰ Θάλ …

Lucian of Samosata, Demonax 52: ἐρομένῳ δέ τινι εἰ καὶ αὐτὸς πλακοῦντας ἐσθίοι, Οἴει οὖν, ἔφη, τοῖς μωροῖς τὰς μελίσσας τιθέναι τὰ κηρία;

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.