ἐπρέσβευον (epresbeuon)

ἐπρέσβευον is an Ancient Greek form of πρεσβεύω, meaning “be an envoy; hold an embassy”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pelopidas 31.1: … Ἀχαιοὺς ἅπαντας καὶ τὸ Μαγνήτων ἔθνος ἔμφρουρον πεποιημένου, πυνθανόμεναι Πελοπίδαν ἐπανήκειν αἱ πόλεις εὐθὺς ἐπρέσβευον εἰς Θήβας αἰτούμεναι δύναμιν καὶ στρατηγὸν ἐκεῖνον.

All forms of πρεσβεύω (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.