ἐδόκουν (edokoun)

ἐδόκουν is an Ancient Greek form of δοκέω, meaning “to seem, think”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 287 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.22.1: … ν τῶν λεχθέντων διαμνημονεῦσαι ἦν ἐμοί τε ὧν αὐτὸς ἤκουσα καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοθέν ποθεν ἐμοὶ ἀπαγγέλλουσιν· ὡς δ’ ἂν ἐδόκουν ἐμοὶ ἕκαστοι περὶ τῶν αἰεὶ παρόντων τὰ δέοντα μάλιστ’ εἰπεῖν, ἐχομένῳ ὅτι ἐγγύτατα τῆς ξυμπάσης γνώμης τῶν ἀλ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 43.51.2: … στασιάσῃ, διενοοῦντο μὲν καὶ ἐς τρία ἔτη αὐτοὺς προκαταστῆσαι (τοσούτου γὰρ χρόνου πρὸς τὴν στρατείαν χρῄζειν ἐδόκουνʼ οὐ

All forms of δοκέω (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.