ἀγαπῶμεν (agapomen)

ἀγαπῶμεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀγαπάω, meaning “love, be fond of”. It is the 1st person plural imperfect active indicative or 1st person plural present active optative.

It can also be a form of ἀγαπάζω, “welcome warmly”.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pericles 2.3: τῶν μὲν γὰρ ἐκ τῆς τύχης ἀγαθῶν τὰς κτήσεις καὶ ἀπολαύσεις, τῶν δʼ ἀπʼ ἀρετῆς τὰς πράξεις ἀγαπῶμεν, καὶ τὰ μὲν ἡμῖν παρʼ ἑτέρων, τὰ δὲ μᾶλλον ἑτέροις παρʼ ἡμῶν ὑπάρχειν βουλόμεθα. τὸ γὰρ καλὸν ἐφʼ αὑτὸ πρακτι …

Plato, Theaetetus 207: … ος περὶ ἁμάξης λέγει τὸ ἑκατὸν δέ τε δούραθʼ ἁμάξης. ἃ ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην εἰπεῖν, οἶμαι δὲ οὐδὲ σύ· ἀλλʼ ἀγαπῷμεν ἂν ἐρωτηθέντες ὅτι ἐστὶν ἅμαξα, εἰ ἔχοιμεν εἰπεῖν τροχοί, ἄξων, ὑπερτερία, ἄντυγες, ζυγόν. πάνυ μὲν οὖν. ὁ δέ …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 2.12.53: … παρῳχηκότι ἡ μνήμη, τῷ δὲ μέλλοντι ἐλπίς ἐστι· πιστεύομεν δὲ τὰ παρῳχηκότα γεγονέναι καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα ἔσεσθαι· ἀγαπῶμέν τε αὖ, οὕτως ἔχειν τὰ παρῳχηκότα πίστει πεπεισμένοι, τὰ μέλλοντα ἐλπίδι ἀπεκδεχόμενοι. διὰ πάντων γὰρ ἡ ἀγάπη …

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.