ἤθελεν (ethelen)

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

Found 196 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.57: ῥάμνον τε καὶ κλάδον δάφνης ὑπὲρ θύρην ἔθηκεν, ἅπαντα μᾶλλον ἢ θανεῖν ἕτοιμος ὢν ὑπουργεῖν. μωρὸς δʼ ὃς ἤθελέν τινος μισθοῦ τὸ θεῖον εἶναι, ὡς τῶν θεῶν ὄντων ὅταν Βίων θέλῃ νομίζειν. τοιγὰρ μάτην φρονῶν, ὅτʼ ἦν ἅπας ὁ λέ …

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.