ἤθελε (ethele)

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

Found 158 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.65.1: … βούλευε μὲν πλὴν πεντακοσίων ἄνεμον τηρήσασι τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐκπλεῦσαι, ὅπως ἐπὶ πλέον ὁ σῖτος ἀντίσχῃ, καὶ αὐτὸς ἤθελε τῶν μενόντων εἶναι· ὡς δ’ οὐκ ἔπειθε, βουλόμενος τὰ ἐπὶ τούτοις παρασκευάζειν καὶ ὅπως τὰ ἔξωθεν ἕξει ὡς ἄρισ …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.36: … ροῦσι παγαί, εἰ δὲ ἰατρὸν ἐπρίω νοσῶν, οὐκ ἄν, ἔφη, αὐτῷ ἐπείθου, ἀλλʼ εἶπες ἂν ὡς ἄνω ποταμῶν χωροῦσι παγαί; ἤθελέ τις παρʼ αὐτῷ φιλοσοφεῖν· ὁ δέ οἱ σαπέρδην δοὺς ἐκέλευσεν ἀκολουθεῖν. ὡς δʼ ὑπʼ αἰδοῦς ῥίψας ἀπῆλθε, μετὰ χρό …

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.