ἔδησεν (edesen)

ἔδησεν is an Ancient Greek form of δέω, meaning “lack, need; (mid.) need, ask for”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alexander 41.4: ἔγραψε δὲ καὶ Παυσανίᾳ τῷ ἰατρῷ βουλομένῳ τὸν Κρατερὸν ἐλλεβορίσαι, τὰ μὲν ἀγωνιῶν, τὰ δὲ παραινῶν ὅπως χρήσεται τῇ φαρμακείᾳ, τοὺς δὲ πρώτους τὴν Ἁρπάλου φυγὴν καὶ ἀπόδρασιν ἀπαγγείλαντας ἔδησεν, Ἐφιάλτην καὶ Κίσσον, ὡς καταψευδομένους τοῦ ἀνδρός.

Lucian of Samosata, De Syria dea 24: … Κομβάβος τὴν αἰτίην, θαρσέων τε ᾖεν, ὅτι οἱ ἡ ἀπολογίη οἴκοι ἐλείπετο, καί μιν ἐλθόντα ὁ βασιλεὺς αὐτίκα μὲν ἔδησέν τε καὶ ἐν φρουρῇ εἶχεν· μετὰ δέ, παρεόντων οἱ τῶν φίλων οἳ καὶ τότε πεμπομένῳ τῷ Κομβάβῳ παρεγένοντο, παραγαγ …

All forms of δέω (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.