οἴεσθε (oiesthe)

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

Found 179 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.71.1: ‘ταύτης μέντοι τοιαύτης ἀντικαθεστηκυίας πόλεως, ὦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, διαμέλλετε καὶ οἴεσθε τὴν ἡσυχίαν οὐ τούτοις τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀρκεῖν οἳ ἂν τῇ μὲν παρασκευῇ δίκαια πράσσωσι, τῇ δὲ γνώμῃ, …

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 51.8: εἰπόντος δέ τινος ὦ Λεωνίδα, πρὸς πολλοὺς μετʼ ὀλίγων διακινδυνεύσων οὕτω πάρει; εἰ μὲν οἴεσθέ με ἔφη τῷ πλήθει, οὐδὲ ἡ πᾶσα Ἑλλὰς ἀρκεῖ· βραχεῖα γὰρ μοῖρα τοῦ ἐκείνων πλήθους ἐστίν· εἰ δὲ ταῖς ἀρεταῖς, καὶ οὗτος ὁ ἀριθμὸς ἱκανός.

Aristophanes, Wealth 426: ὄιεσθε δʼ εἶναι τίνα με;

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.