εἴην (eien)

εἴην is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the 1st person singular present active optative.

Found 190 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.704: εἴην ἐξ Ἀίδεω στυγερὴ μετόπισθεν Ἐρινύς.

All forms of εἰμί (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.