ἔσπευδεν (espeuden)

ἔσπευδεν is an Ancient Greek form of σπεύδω, meaning “hurry, press on”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Themistocles 7.5: … τα τῶν πολιτῶν Ἀρχιτέλους, ὃς ἦν μὲν ἐπὶ τῆς ἱερᾶς νεὼς τριήραρχος, οὐκ ἔχων δὲ χρήματα τοῖς ναύταις χορηγεῖν ἔσπευδεν ἀποπλεῦσαι, παρώξυνεν ἔτι μᾶλλον ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆς τοὺς τριηρίτας ἐπʼ αὐτόν, ὥστε τὸ δεῖπνον ἁρπάσαι συνδραμόντας …

All forms of σπεύδω (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.