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ἐπιθυμοῦσι (epithymousi)

ἐπιθυμοῦσι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιθυμέω, meaning “desire, long for”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aristides 6.4: … ακείμενοι, τῆς μὲν ἀθανασίας, ἣν ἡ φύσις ἡμῶν οὐ δέχεται, καὶ τῆς δυνάμεως, ἧς ἐν τῇ τύχῃ κεῖται τὸ πλεῖστον, ἐπιθυμοῦσι, τὴν δʼ ἀρετήν, ὃ μόνον ἐστὶ τῶν θείων ἀγαθῶν ἐφʼ ἡμῖν, ἐν ὑστέρῳ τίθενται, κακῶς φρονοῦντες, ὡς τὸν ἐν δυνάμ …

All forms of ἐπιθυμέω (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.