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ἔμελεν (emelen)

ἔμελεν is an Ancient Greek form of μέλω, meaning “be a care to; (impers.) it concerns”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.11.65: … ἔκδυσιν εὗρες λατρείης δοξῶν [τε] κενεοφροσύνης τε σοφιστῶν, καὶ πάσης ἀπάτης πειθοῦς τʼ ἀπελύσαο δεσμά; οὐδʼ ἔμελέν σοι ταῦτα μεταλλῆσαι, τίνες αὖραι Ἑλλάδʼ ἔχουσι, πόθεν τε καὶ εἰς ὅ, τι κύρει ἕκαστα. καὶ πάλιν ἐν τοῖς Ἰνδαλ …

Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 459: ἃ τοῖσιν ἀστοῖς ἔμελεν;

All forms of μέλω (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.