εἰώθασιν (eiothasin)

εἰώθασιν is an Ancient Greek form of ἔθω, meaning “be accustomed”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.

Found 95 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.132.5: … δ’ ὣς οὐδὲ τῶν Εἱλώτων μηνυταῖς τισὶ πιστεύσαντες ἠξίωσαν νεώτερόν τι ποιεῖν ἐς αὐτόν, χρώμενοι τῷ τρόπῳ ᾧπερ εἰώθασιν ἐς σφᾶς αὐτούς, μὴ ταχεῖς εἶναι περὶ ἀνδρὸς Σπαρτιάτου ἄνευ ἀναμφισβητήτων τεκμηρίων βουλεῦσαί τι ἀνήκεστον, …

Hyperides, Funeral Oration 8: … λλὰ περὶ τῆς παιδείας αὐτῶν ἐπιμνησθῶ, καὶ ὡς ἐν πολλῇ ςωφροσύνῃ παῖδες ὄντες ἐτράφησαν καὶ ἐπαιδεύθησαν ὅπερ εἰώθασίν τινες ποιεῖν; ἀλλʼ οἶμαι πάντας εἰδέναι ὅτι τούτου ἕνεκα τοὺς παῖδας παιδεύομεν, ἵνα ἄνδρες ἀγαθοὶ γένωνται· …

All forms of ἔθω (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.