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ἠγάπα (egapa)

ἠγάπα is an Ancient Greek form of ἀγαπάω, meaning “love, be fond of”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.17.141: … ον. δοκεῖ δʼ ἐμβριθέστατα πρεσβεῦσαι πρὸς Δημήτριον ὑπὲρ τοῦ Ὠρωποῦ, ὡς καὶ Εὔφαντος ἐν Ἱστορίαις μνημονεύει. ἠγάπα δὲ αὐτὸν καὶ Ἀντίγονος καὶ μαθητὴν ἀνεκήρυττεν αὑτόν. καὶ ἡνίκα ἐνίκα τοὺς βαρβάρους περὶ Λυσιμαχίαν, γράφει …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 47.24.6: … ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ Πώλλα προμαθοῦσα τὴν ἐπιβουλήν, καὶ δείσασα περί τε τῷ Κασσιῳ μὴ προκαταληφθῇ (σφόδρα γὰρ αὐτὸν ἠγάπἀ καὶ περὶ τῷ υἱῷ μὴ καταφωραθῇ, τό τε ἐπιβούλευμα αὐτὴ ἑκοῦσα τῷ Κασσίῳ προεμήνυσε καὶ τὴν σωτηρίαν τοῦ παιδὸς …

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.