ἠθέλησεν (ethelesen)

ἠθέλησεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐθέλω, meaning “to wish, be willing”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 135 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 563: οὐκ ἄν ποτ’ ἠθέλησεν εἰσελθεῖν δόμους,

Plato, Euthydemus 293: … σπουδάσαντας ἐπιδεῖξαι τίς ποτʼ ἐστὶν ἡ ἐπιστήμη ἧς τυχόντες ἂν καλῶς τὸν ἐπίλοιπον βίον διέλθοιμεν. τί οὖν; ἠθέλησέν τι ὑμῖν ἐπιδεῖξαι ὁ Εὐθύδημος; πῶς γὰρ οὔ; καὶ ἤρξατό γε, ὦ ἑταῖρε, πάνυ μεγαλοφρόνως τοῦ λόγου ὧδε— πότερον …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 49.28.2: … ίοις τισὶ καταλύσεσθαι προσεδόκησε, καὶ τοὺς στρατιώτας ἐς ἀθυμίαν ἐκ τῆς τῶν σπονδῶν διαμαρτίας ἐμβαλεῖν οὐκ ἠθέλησενʼ, ἐπειχθῆναι δέ, ἐπειδήπερ ἅπαξ ἐξανειστήκει, ἐς τὴν Ἀρμενίαν

All forms of ἐθέλω (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.