ἐκώλυε (ekolye)

ἐκώλυε is an Ancient Greek form of κωλύω, meaning “hinder, prevent, forbid”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.66.3: παρασκευαζομένων δὲ ἐκ μὲν τῆς πόλεως οὐδεὶς ἐξιὼν ἐκώλυε, πρῶτοι δὲ οἱ ἱππῆς τῶν Συρακοσίων προσεβοήθησαν, ἔπειτα δὲ ὕστερον καὶ τὸ πεζὸν ἅπαν ξυνελέγη. καὶ προσῆλθον …

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 2: … κ ὀλίγον ἔχων τοῖς ὁδοιπόροις. Οὐχ ἱκανὰ οὖν ἵδρωταί σοι, ὦ Ἑρμότιμε, καὶ ὡδοιπόρηται; Οὔ, φημί· οὐδὲν γὰρ ἂν ἐκώλυέ με πανευδαίμονα εἶναι ἐπὶ τῷ ἄκρῳ γενόμενον. τὸ δὲ νῦν ἀρχόμεθα ἔτι, ὦ Λυκῖνε.

Procopius, De Bellis 1.23.4: … ʽἦν γὰρ αὐτοῖς πολύς τις πόθος τῆς Ζάμου ἀρχῆς ἣν δὴ ὁ νόμος αἰτίᾳ τῆς τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ λώβης, ὥσπερ μοι ἐρρήθη, ἐκώλυἐ λογισάμενοι ηὕρισκον σφίσιν αὐτοῖς ἄμεινον εἶναι Καβάδην μὲν τὸν αὐτοῦ παῖδα καὶ τῷ πάππῳ ὁμώνυμον ἐς τὴν ἀρχ …

All forms of κωλύω (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.