ἐκέλευεν (ekeleuen)

ἐκέλευεν is an Ancient Greek form of κελεύω, meaning “to order, command, urge”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 360 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.348: ἦ ῥα μέγα φρονέων, ἐπὶ δʼ ᾔνεον, ὡς ἐκέλευεν

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.93.3: ὁ δὲ δύο μὲν ναῦς τοὺς Κορινθίους ἤδη ἐκέλευέν οἱ πέμπειν ἐς Ἀσίνην, τὰς δὲ λοιπὰς παρασκευάζεσθαι ὅσας διανοοῦνται πέμπειν καί, ὅταν καιρὸς ᾖ, ἑτοίμας εἶναι πλεῖν. ταῦτα δὲ ξυνθέμενοι ἀνεχώρουν ἐκ τῆς Λακεδαίμονος.

All forms of κελεύω (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.