ἐγένοντο (egenonto)

ἐγένοντο is an Ancient Greek form of γίγνομαι, meaning “to become, be born, happen”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist middle indicative.

Found 1,181 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.502: αὐτῇσιν νύμφῃσι καὶ ἑρπετὰ πάντʼ ἐγένοντο.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.73.2: οἱ γὰρ τότε τῶν Σαμίων ἐπαναστάντες τοῖς δυνατοῖς καὶ ὄντες δῆμος μεταβαλλόμενοι αὖθις καὶ πεισθέντες ὑπό τε τοῦ Πεισάνδρου, ὅτε ἦλθε, καὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ Σάμῳ ξυνεστώτων Ἀθηναίων ἐγένοντό τε ἐς τριακοσίους ξυνωμόται καὶ ἔμελλον τοῖς ἄλλοις ὡς δήμῳ ὄντι ἐπιθήσεσθαι.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 49: Ἐγένοντο Λήδᾳ Θεστιάδι τρεῖς παρθένοι,

All forms of γίγνομαι (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.