ἡγοῦμαι (hegoumai)

ἡγοῦμαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἡγέομαι, meaning “lead, guide; think, believe”. It is the 1st person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 490 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.23.6: τὴν μὲν γὰρ ἀληθεστάτην πρόφασιν, ἀφανεστάτην δὲ λόγῳ, τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἡγοῦμαι μεγάλους γιγνομένους καὶ φόβον παρέχοντας τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις ἀναγκάσαι ἐς τὸ πολεμεῖν· αἱ δ’ ἐς τὸ φανερὸν λ …

Aristophanes, Wealth 27: πιστότατον ἡγοῦμαί σε καὶ κλεπτίστατον.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 260·7: … αι καὶ ἀνάστασιν, καὶ τί τὸ σημεῖον τὸ ἀντιλεγόμενον, ἢ τρίτον, πῶς τῆς Μαρίας τὴν ψυχὴν διελεύσεται ῥομφαία. Ἡγοῦμαι τοίνυν εἰς πτῶσιν καὶ ἀνάστασιν εἶναι τὸν Κύριον, οὐκ ἄλλων πιπτόντων καὶ ἄλλων ἀνισταμένων, ἀλλὰ τοῦ ἐν ἡμῖν …

All forms of ἡγέομαι (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.