ἐπόθουν (epothoun)

ἐπόθουν is an Ancient Greek form of ποθέω, meaning “long for, miss”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 5.1: οἱ δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι τὸν Λυκοῦργον ἐπόθουν ἀπόντα καὶ μετεπέμποντο πολλάκις, ὡς τοὺς μὲν βασιλεῖς ὄνομα καὶ τιμήν, ἄλλο δὲ μηδὲν διαφέρον τῶν πολλῶν ἔχο …

All forms of ποθέω (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.