ἤμελλον (emellon)

ἤμελλον is an Ancient Greek form of μέλλω, meaning “to be about to, intend; delay”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Cato the Younger 38.3: … αιόντων τῆς νυκτός ἥφθησαν αἱ σκηναί καὶ τὸ βιβλίον ἠφανίσθη. τοὺς μὲν οὖν ἐχθροὺς καὶ συκοφάντας ἐπιστομιεῖν ἤμελλον οἱ βασιλικοὶ διοικηταὶ παρόντες, ἄλλως δὲ τῷ Κάτωνι τὸ πρᾶγμα δηγμὸν ἤνεγκεν. οὐ γὰρ εἰς πίστιν ὑπὲρ αὑτοῦ το …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 53.7.4: ἐστιν. λέγω δὲ ταῦτα οὐκ ἄλλως ἐπικομπῶν (οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν εἶπον αὐτὰ ἀρχήν, εἰ καὶ ὁτιοῦν πλεονεκτήσειν ἀπʼ αὐτῶν ἤμελλονʼ, ἀλλʼ ἵνα εἰδῆτε ὅτι πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων ἔς τε τὸ κοινὸν εὐεργετημάτων καὶ ἐς τὰ οἰκεῖα σεμνολογημάτων ἡμῖν ὄν …

All forms of μέλλω (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.