ἔμελλεν (emellen)

ἔμελλεν is an Ancient Greek form of μέλλω, meaning “to be about to, intend; delay”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 453 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.78: πέμπεν Ἀβαντιάδης λελιημένον· οὐ μὲν ἔμελλεν

Lucian of Samosata, Demonax 1: Ἔμελλεν ἄρα μηδὲ ὁ καθʼ ἡμᾶς βίος τὸ παντάπασιν ἄμοιρος ἔσεσθαι ἀνδρῶν λόγου καὶ μνήμης ἀξίων, ἀλλὰ καὶ σώματος ἀρετὴ …

Lucian of Samosata, De saltatione 25: … οσύνῃ τοῦ κινουμένου· καὶ οὐκ ᾐδεῖτο γέρων ἀνὴρ ἓν τῶν σπουδαιοτάτων μαθημάτων καὶ τοῦτο ἡγούμενος εἶναι. καὶ ἔμελλέν γε ἐκεῖνος περὶ ὀρχηστικὴν οὐ μετρίως σπουδάσεσθαι, ὅς γε καὶ τὰ μικρὰ οὐκ ὤκνει μανθάνειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς τὰ δ …

All forms of μέλλω (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.