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εἴα (eia)

εἴα is an Ancient Greek form of ἐάω, meaning “to allow, permit, let be”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 229 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.74: ὧς ὅγε Τυνδαρίδην φοβέων ἕπετʼ, οὐδέ μιν εἴα

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 5.78: εἶα λέγʼ εἴ τι λέγεις, καὶ τὸν ξένον ἐς πόλιν αὖθις

Sophocles, Ichneutae 93: ἄγʼ εἷα δὴ πᾶς ς[

All forms of ἐάω (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.