ἤλπιζε (elpize)

ἤλπιζε is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλπίζω, meaning “hope, expect”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 63 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.59.3: ὁ δὲ ὁρῶν αὐτοὺς πρὸς τὰ παρόντα χαλεπαίνοντας καὶ πάντα ποιοῦντας ἅπερ αὐτὸς ἤλπιζε, ξύλλογον ποιήσας (ἔτι δ’ ἐστρατήγει) ἐβούλετο θαρσῦναί τε καὶ ἀπαγαγὼν τὸ ὀργιζόμενον τῆς γνώμης πρὸς τὸ ἠπιώτερον καὶ ἀδεέστερον καταστῆσαι· παρελθὼν δὲ ἔλεξε τοιάδε.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 40.61.3: … τοῖς τε δυνατωτάτοις σφῶν, οἵπερ που καὶ τὰ τοῦ Πομπηίου μάλιστʼ ἔπραττον, ἔγραφεν, οὐχ ὅτι καὶ ἤθελεν ἢ καὶ ἤλπιζέ τι αὐτῶν γενήσεσθαι, ἀλλʼ ἵνα μὴ προσδεχομένων μήτε κατὰ τοῦ Καίσαρός τι ψηφισθείη (πολλὰ γὰρ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ ὑπὸ πο …

All forms of ἐλπίζω (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.