ἤλπισαν (elpisan)

ἤλπισαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλπίζω, meaning “hope, expect”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Timoleon and Aemilius 2.6: καίτοι τίνες ἢ πηλίκων κύριοι πραγμάτων ὄντες οὗτοι τοιαῦτα ἤλπισαν; ὧν ὁ μὲν ἐκπεπτωκότα Συρακουσῶν ἐθεράπευε Διονύσιον, Κάλλιππος δὲ εἷς ἦν τῶν περὶ Δίωνα ξεναγῶν.

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.