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σπεύδων (speudon)

σπεύδων is an Ancient Greek form of σπεύδω, meaning “hurry, press on”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 125 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.67: … ῦντος βιαίως Πεισιστράτου. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡδίων ἡμῖν ἡ βιοτή, ἔνθα πᾶσι τὰ δίκαια καὶ ἴσα. ἀφίξομαι δʼ οὖν παρὰ σέ, σπεύδων τοι ξένος γενέσθαι.

All forms of σπεύδω (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.