ἐθέλειν (ethelein)

ἐθέλειν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐθέλω, meaning “to wish, be willing”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 287 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.41.5: περὶ τοιαύτης οὖν πόλεως οἵδε τε γενναίως δικαιοῦντες μὴ ἀφαιρεθῆναι αὐτὴν μαχόμενοι ἐτελεύτησαν, καὶ τῶν λειπομένων πάντα τινὰ εἰκὸς ἐθέλειν ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς κάμνειν.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 45.43.2: … ἂν δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιμένῃ, τότε καὶ τὸν πόλεμον αὐτῷ ψηφισθῆναι (ταῦτα γὰρ πυνθάνομαί τινας παραινέσαι ὑμῖν ἐθέλεινʼ, λόγῳ μὲν εὐπρεπέστατον, τῷ δὲ ἔργῳ καὶ αἰσχρὸν καὶ ἐπικίνδυνον τῇ πόλει πρᾶγμα ποιεῖ. πῶς μὲν γὰρ οὐκ αἰσχρὸ …

All forms of ἐθέλω (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.