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ἐδέησεν (edeesen)

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

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Publicola 7.3: … τοῖς πολίταις ἐλευθέροις οὖσι ψῆφον δίδωσι· λεγέτω δὲ ὁ βουλόμενος καὶ πειθέτω τὸν δῆμον. οὐκέτι μέντοι λόγων ἐδέησεν, ἀλλὰ τῆς ψήφου δοθείσης πάσαις ἁλόντες ἐπελεκίσθησαν.

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.