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imperfect ἔμελλον and ἤμελλον (see. below), Epic dialect μέλλον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.278, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.232, 9.378, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 12.164 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect, Ionic dialect μέλλεσκον [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.240, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.109 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: future μελλήσω [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.15, NT.Matt.24.6 ] NT+4th c.BC+]: aorist ἐμέλλησα [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.55, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.65, etc., and ἠμ- (see. below)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive and middle, see below see.—Only present and imperfect in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], Lyric poetry, and Trag.: aorist only in Prose (except [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus, see below): the ] Refs 6th c.BC+]imperfect ἤμελλον with long augment is established by the metre in [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 898, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 906, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 597, “Ra.” 1038 (both _anapaest meter_), 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.1309 (cf. Scholia (at [prev. work])), 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 58 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἠμέλλησα [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 259 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἤμελλον is not found in earlier Attic dialect Inscrr., but occurs in Papyrus, as [[ “PPetr.” 2p.146 (3rd c.BC), 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.145 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus (but ἔμελλον 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “adv. Athenogenem” 7, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 25.3). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I to be destined or likely to, indicating an estimated certainty or strong probability in the present, past, or future (cf. Aristonic. cited in [[Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.326, 11.817, 16.46, +others): a. with ] Refs 8th c.BC+]present infinitive (or its equivalent), of a probability in the present, ὅθι που μέλλουσιν ἄριστοι βουλὰς βουλεύειν where belike the best are holding counsel, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.326 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ᾧ μέλλεις εὔχεσθαι to whom thou doubtless prayest, [[ 11.364 ] Refs]; μέλλεις δὲ σὺ ἴδμεναι doubtless thou knowest, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.200 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ δὲ μέλλετ᾽ ἀκουέμεν belike you have heard it, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.125, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.94; οὕτω που Διὶ μέλλει ὑπερμενέϊ φίλον εἶναι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.116 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὄλβον δὲ θεοὶ μέλλουσιν ὀπάζειν methinks it is the gods who give wealth, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.19 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰ δ᾽ οὕτω τοῦτ᾽ ἐστίν, ἐμοὶ μέλλει φίλον εἶναι you may be sure it is my good pleasure, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.564. b. with ] Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist infinitive, of a probability in the past, μέλλω που ἀπεχθέσθαι Διὶ πατρί I must have become hateful to father Zeus, [[ 21.83 ] Refs]; κελευσέμεναι δέ σ᾽ ἔμελλε δαίμων a god must surely have bidden thee, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.274 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πολλάκι που μέλλεις ἀρήμεναι you must often have prayed, [[ 22.322 ] Refs]; μέλλω ἀθανάτους ἀλιτέσθαι I must have sinned against the immortals, [[ 4.377 ] Refs]; ἄλλοτε δή ποτε μᾶλλον ἐρωῆσαι πολέμοιο μέλλω at any other time rather than this I may have drawn back.., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.777 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μέλλει μέν πού τις καὶ φίλτερον ἄλλον ὀλέσσαι before now, no doubt, a man has lost.., [[ 24.46, compare 18.362; τοῦ δ᾽ ἤδη μέλλουσι κύνες ταχέες τ᾽ οἰωνοὶ ῥινὸν ἀπ᾽ ὀστεόφιν ἐρύσαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.133 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a destiny in the past, ἔμελλεν οἷ αὐτῷ θάνατον.. λιτέσθαι he was fated to have been praying for his own death, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.46 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἔμελλον ἑταίρῳ κτεινομένῳ ἐπαμῦναι since I was (i.e. am) not destined to have succoured my comrade when they were slaying him, [[ 18.98: with ] Refs]present infinitive, οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἔμελλες ἀνάλκιδος ἀνδρὸς ἑταίρους ἔδμεναι he was to turn out no helpless man whose comrades you ate, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.475. with with ] Refs 8th c.BC+]future infinitive, of a destin y or probability in the future, ἅ οὐ τελέεσθαι ἔμελλον which were not to be accomplished, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.36 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τάχα δ᾽ ἀνστήσεσθαι ἔμελλεν[[ [prev. work] 694; ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἔμελλον ἔγωγε νοστήσας οἶκόνδε.. εὐφρανέειν ἄλοχον 5.686, compare 12.113, 22.356, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.293, 384; μέλλον ἔτι ξυνέσεσθαι ὀϊζυῖ πολλῇ 7.270 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; περὶ τρίποδος γὰρ ἔμελλον θεύσεσθαι they were to have run.., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.700, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 463; χρόνῳ ἔμελλέ σ᾽ Ἕκτωρ.. ἀποφθίσειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1027; ἔμελλον ἄρα παύσειν ποθ᾽ ὑμᾶς τοῦ κοάξ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 268; φεύγει; ἔμελλόν σ᾽ ἆρα κινήσειν ἐγώ [prev. author] “Nu.” 1301, compare “V.” 460, “Pl.” 103, “Ach.” 347: with ] Refs 8th c.BC+]present infinitive, καὶ γὰρ ἐγώ ποτ᾽ ἔμελλον ἐν ἀνδράσιν ὄλβιος εἶναι I had a chance of being, might have been.., [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.138; μέλλεν ποτὲ οἶκος ὅδ᾽ ἀφνειὸς καὶ ἀμύμων ἔμμεναι, ὄφρ᾽ ἔτι κεῖνος ἀνὴρ ἐπιδήμιος ἦεν 1.232 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with aorist infinitive [[compare(below 11), οὐδεὶς ἂν οὐδὲ μελλήσειε γενέσθαι ἀγαθός 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1105b11: with ] Refs 4th c.BC+]infinitive understood, [τὰ μὲν] πάσχουσι, τὰ δὲ μέλλουσι [πάσχειν] [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 814 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀλλ᾽ οὐχ οὑμὸς τοῦτο πέπονθεν βίος οὐ μὰ Δί᾽ οὐδέ γε μέλλει no, not likely! [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 551; οὐδὲν.. οὔτε ἐπάθετε οὔτε ἐμελλήσατε 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.55; οὔτ᾽ ἐμὲ ἀπέφηνεν ἡ βουλὴ οὔτ᾽ ἐμέλλησεν 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.49. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]