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ἐλθοῦσα (elthousa)

ἐλθοῦσα is an Ancient Greek form of ἔρχομαι, meaning “to come, go”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular feminine.

Found 88 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.8.4: … ν αἰφνιδίως πρὶν ἀπελθεῖν τοὺς Ἀθηναίους, οὐκ ἂν νομίζων αὐτοὺς ὁμοίως ἀπολαβεῖν αὖθις μεμονωμένους, εἰ τύχοι ἐλθοῦσα αὐτοῖς ἡ βοήθεια.ξυγκαλέσας δὲ τοὺς πάντας στρατιώτας καὶ βουλόμενος παραθαρσῦναί τε καὶ τὴν ἐπίνοιαν φράσαι, …

Euripides, Helen 1510: οὐκ ἐλθοῦσά ποτʼ Ἰλίου

Aesop, Fables 109: … ς βόας λύσας ἀπήλασεν. Ὁ δὲ ἐπανελθών καὶ τοὺς βόας μὴ εὑρηκὡς, κόπτεσθαί τε καὶ οἰμώζειν ἰσχυρῶς ἐνεστήσατο. Ἐλθοῦσα δὲ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ καὶ ὀλοφυρόμενον εὑροῦσα, φησί “πάλιν κλαίεις ;“ κἀκεῖνος “νῦν·“ εἶπεν “ἐπʼ ἀληθείας κλαίω.“

All forms of ἔρχομαι (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.