ἐκώλυσεν (ekolysen)

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

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.94.1: … ὶ παρὰ σφᾶς ὅσον οὐκ ἐσπλεῖν αὐτούς· ὅπερ ἄν, εἰ ἐβουλήθησαν μὴ κατοκνῆσαι, ῥᾳδίως ἐγένετο, καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἄνεμος ἐκώλυσεν.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 39.23.3: (ὁ γὰρ Κάτων καὶ τοῦτʼ ἐκώλυσενʼ· ὀργῇ δʼ οὖν ὁ Κλώδιος τὴν ἐναντίωσιν αὐτοῦ φέρων, τά τε διοικηθέντα ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ διέβαλλε καὶ τοὺς λογισμοὺς τῶ …

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.