ἐδέησε (edeese)

ἐδέησε is an Ancient Greek form of δέω, meaning “lack, need; (mid.) need, ask for”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.77.5: τοῦτο δὲ μέγα τε ἦν καὶ τοὺς Πλαταιᾶς τἆλλα διαφυγόντας ἐλαχίστου ἐδέησε διαφθεῖραι· ἐντὸς γὰρ πολλοῦ χωρίου τῆς πόλεως οὐκ ἦν πελάσαι, πνεῦμά τε εἰ ἐπεγένετο αὐτῇ ἐπίφορον, ὅπερ καὶ ἤλπιζον οἱ ἐναντίοι, οὐκ ἂν διέφυγον.

Plutarch, Lucullus 28.4: … ειρὸς ἕκαστον διαλαβόντα παίειν τῶν πολεμίων κνήμας τε καὶ μηρούς, ἃ μόνα γυμνὰ τῶν καταφράκτων ἐστίν, οὐ μὴν ἐδέησέ τι ταύτης τῆς μάχης οὐ γὰρ ἐδέξαντο τοὺς Ῥωμαίους, ἀλλʼ ἀλαλάξαντες καὶ φεύγοντες αἴσχιστα πάντων ἐνέωσαν ἑαυ …

All forms of δέω (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.