ὁρμήσας (hormesas)

ὁρμήσας is an Ancient Greek form of ὁρμάω, meaning “set in motion, rush; (mid.) set out, start”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 83 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.36.2: λαβὼν δὲ ἃ ᾐτήσατο, ἐκ τοῦ ἀφανοῦς ὁρμήσας ὥστε μὴ ἰδεῖν ἐκείνους, κατὰ τὸ αἰεὶ παρεῖκον τοῦ κρημνώδους τῆς νήσου προσβαίνων, καὶ ᾗ οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι χωρ …

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1064a: ὁρμήσασʼ ἐπʼ ἔργον,

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 4.9: … ένους· ὁ δὲ πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἔφη, θαυμάζων τὸ ὑπεροπτικὸν τοῦ ἀνδρός, ὡς εἰ μὴ Ἀλέξανδρος ἥμην, Διογενὴς ἂν ἥμην.” Ὁρμήσας δὲ εἰς τὴν ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ στρατείαν οὐ πρότερον τῆς νηὸς ἐπέβη πρὶν τῷ μὲν τῶν ἑταίρων ἀγρόν ἀπονεῖμαι, τῷ δὲ κώμ …

All forms of ὁρμάω (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.