ὥρμηντο (hormento)

ὥρμηντο is an Ancient Greek form of ὁρμάω, meaning “set in motion, rush; (mid.) set out, start”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 79 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.9.1: παρασκευῇ μὲν οὖν καὶ γνώμῃ τοιαύτῃ ὥρμηντο, πόλεις δὲ ἑκάτεροι τάσδε ἔχοντες ξυμμάχους ἐς τὸν πόλεμον καθίσταντο.

Procopius, De Bellis 2.22.25: ὕδωρ τε οἷς παρατύχοι, ἐμπεσεῖν ἤθελον, οὐ δὴ οὐχ ὅσον τοῦ ποτοῦ ἐπιθυμίᾳ ʽἐς γὰρ θάλασσαν οἱ πολλοὶ ὥρμηντὀ, ἀλλ’ αἴτιον ἦν μάλιστα ἡ τῶν φρενῶν νόσος.

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.