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εἰν (ein)

εἰν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐν, meaning “in, among (+dat.)”. It is the preposition.

Found 126 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.460: ἔνθʼ αὖτʼ Αἰσονίδης μὲν ἀμήχανος εἰν ἑοῖ αὐτῷ

Sophocles, Ichneutae 382: [κ]ακῶς ἀκού[ειν οὐ πρέπει Διὸς γόνῳ.

Aristophanes, Clouds 1357: ὁ δʼ εὐθέως ἀρχαῖον εἶνʼ ἔφασκε τὸ κιθαρίζειν

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.