ἐγένου (egenou)

ἐγένου is an Ancient Greek form of γίγνομαι, meaning “to become, be born, happen”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist middle indicative.

Found 53 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.6.90: … ει, ἀλλʼ οἷος ἦν. Καὶ ἔστιν ἡμῶν εἰς αὐτὸν οὕτως ἔχον· ἤθελες ἀνθρώποισι λιπεῖν φάτιν, Ἡρακλείδη, ὥς ῥα θανὼν ἐγένου ζωὸς ἅπασι δράκων. ἀλλὰ διεψεύσθης, σεσοφισμένε· δὴ γὰρ ὁ μὲν θὴρ ἦε δράκων, σὺ δὲ θήρ, οὐ σοφὸς ὤν, ἑάλως. τ …

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.