ἔμελλον (emellon)

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

Found 541 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.625: αὐτίκʼ ἀνήνασθαι τόνδε στόλον, εἰ καὶ ἔμελλον

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.76.3: Σίφας μὲν ἔμελλόν τινες προδώσειν (αἱ δὲ Σῖφαί εἰσι τῆς Θεσπικῆς γῆς ἐν τῷ Κρισαίῳ κόλπῳ ἐπιθαλασσίδιοι)· Χαιρώνειαν δέ, ἣ ἐς Ὀ …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 6: Ἔμελλον ἀποσιωπᾷν πρὸς τὴν κοσμιότητά σου, λογιζόμενος ὅτι, ὥσπερ ὀφθαλμῷ φλεγμαίνοντι καὶ τὸ ἁπαλώτατον τῶν παρηγορη …

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.