ἠπόρουν (eporoun)

ἠπόρουν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπορέω, meaning “be at a loss”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.27.1: ἐν δὲ ταῖς Ἀθήναις πυνθανόμενοι περὶ τῆς στρατιᾶς ὅτι ταλαιπωρεῖται καὶ σῖτος τοῖς ἐν τῇ νήσῳ ὅτι ἐσπλεῖ, ἠπόρουν καὶ ἐδεδοίκεσαν μὴ σφῶν χειμὼν τὴν φυλακὴν ἐπιλάβοι, ὁρῶντες τῶν τε ἐπιτηδείων τὴν περὶ τὴν Πελοπόννησον κομι …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 43.6.3: οἴκοθεν προσμετεπέμπετο. καὶ ὀψὲ μὲν καὶ χαλεπῶς ἐλθούσας αὐτάς (οὔτε γὰρ ἀθρόαι ἦσαν ἀλλὰ κατὰ βραχὺ συνελέγοντο, καὶ πλοίων ὥσθʼ ἅμα περαιωθῆναι ἠπόρουνʼ — ἐλθούσας δʼ οὖν ποτε προσλαβὼν ἀνεθάρσησεν αὖθις, καὶ ἐπεξαγαγὼν

All forms of ἀπορέω (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.