ἐφίλει (ephilei)

ἐφίλει is an Ancient Greek form of φιλέω, meaning “love, like, kiss; be accustomed”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 22.3: δυεῖν γὰρ υἱῶν αὐτοῦ στρατευομένων ὁ νεώτερος οὐδαμοῦ φανερὸς ἦν, ὃν ἐφίλει τε μάλιστα καὶ πλεῖστον εἰς ἀρετὴν φύσει προὔχοντα τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἑώρα.

All forms of φιλέω (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.