παρῆν (paren)

παρῆν is an Ancient Greek form of πάρειμι, meaning “to be present, be at hand”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 516 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.22.2: τὰ δ’ ἔργα τῶν πραχθέντων ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ οὐκ ἐκ τοῦ παρατυχόντος πυνθανόμενος ἠξίωσα γράφειν, οὐδ’ ὡς ἐμοὶ ἐδόκει, ἀλλ’ οἷς τε αὐτὸς παρῆν καὶ παρὰ τῶν ἄλλων ὅσον δυνατὸν ἀκριβείᾳ περὶ ἑκάστου ἐπεξελθών.

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 17.1: … ; ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ ὅτι παράσιτος ὢν Δεινίου πλέον τοῦ ἱκανοῦ ἐμφαγὼν ἀπεπνίγην, οἶσθα· παρῆς γὰρ ἀποθνήσκοντί μοι. Παρῆν, ὦ Ζηνόφαντε· τὸ δὲ ἐμὸν παράδοξόν τι ἐγένετο. οἶσθα γὰρ καὶ σύ που Πτοιόδωρον τὸν γέροντα; Τὸν ἄτεκνον, τὸν …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 40.21.3: Γαλατίας παρῆνʼ, καὶ καταφρονήσας σφῶν ὡς καὶ μόνων, ἀντεξήγαγε τῷ ἱππικῷ, καὶ τραπομένους ἐξεπίτηδες αὐτοὺς ἐπιδιώκων ὡς καὶ κρατῶν ἀπήχθη πολὺ ἀπὸ τῆς φάλαγγος, κἀνταῦθα

All forms of πάρειμι (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.