εἴχομεν (eichomen)

εἴχομεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the 1st person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 96 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.10.6: καὶ πιστοὺς οὐκέτι εἴχομεν ἡγεμόνας Ἀθηναίους, παραδείγμασι τοῖς προγιγνομένοις χρώμενοι· οὐ γὰρ εἰκὸς ἦν αὐτοὺς οὓς μὲν μεθ’ ἡμῶν ἐνσπόνδους ἐποιήσαντο καταστρέψασθαι, τοὺς δὲ ὑπολοίπους, εἴ ποτε ἄρα ἐδυνήθησαν, μὴ δρᾶσαι τοῦτο.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene 58: … είγματα τῶν εἰρημένων, εἰ μὴ κοπώδης ἔμελλον φανήσεσθαι πρὸς σὲ δῆτα λέγων. ταῦτα, ὦ κράτιστε Ἀμμαῖε, γράφειν εἴχομέν σοι περὶ τῆς Δημοσθένους λέξεως. ἐὰν δὲ σῴζῃ τὸ δαιμόνιον ἡμᾶς, καὶ περὶ τῆς πραγματικῆς αὐτοῦ δεινότητος, ἔτ …

All forms of ἔχω (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.