ἤθελον (ethelon)

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

Found 223 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.28.2: εἰ δέ τι ἀντιποιοῦνται, δίκας ἤθελον δοῦναι ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ παρὰ πόλεσιν αἷς ἂν ἀμφότεροι ξυμβῶσιν· ὁποτέρων δ’ ἂν δικασθῇ εἶναι τὴν ἀποικίαν, τούτους κρατεῖν. ἤθελον δὲ καὶ τῷ ἐν Δελφοῖς μαντείῳ ἐπιτρέψαι.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 42.20.2: … πολέμησε πάντας ὀλίγου καθʼ ἑαυτὸν ἀνείλετο· ὅμως δʼ οὖν αὐτῷ (πολῖταί τε γὰρ καὶ αὐτοτελεῖς ἔτι δοκεῖν εἶναι ἤθελονʼ ταῦτά τε οὕτως ἐψηφίσαντο καὶ τἆλλα πάντα ἃ καὶ ἀκόντων αὐτῶν ἔχειν

Epictetus, Discourses 2.21.14: ἤθελόν πώς ποτε πάντα μαθὼν ἐπανελθεῖν, ἀλλὰ πολλοῦ πόνου χρεία καὶ οὐδεὶς οὐδὲν πέμπει καὶ ἐν Νικοπόλει σαπρῶς λούει τὰ βαλανεῖα καὶ ἐν οἴκῳ κακῶς καὶ ὧδε κακῶς.

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.