ἐγίνοντο (eginonto)

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

Found 266 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.10: … τίαν θʼ ἡσύχαζον, μόνον τῶν λόγων κατακούοντες καὶ οὐδέπω Πυθαγόραν ὁρῶντες εἰς ὃ δοκιμασθεῖεν· τοὐντεῦθεν δʼ ἐγίνοντο τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆς ὄψεως μετεῖχον. ἀπείχοντο δὲ καὶ σοροῦ κυπαρισσίνης διὰ τὸ τὸ τοῦ Διὸς σκῆπτρον ἐντε …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.24.3: ἔπειτα καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν πλῆθος διʼ ὑποψίας τοὺς ἐν τέλει ἐλάμβανεν. ἐγίνοντό τε οὐδενὶ κόσμῳ αἱ ἀπαναστάσεις, ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ εἰκὸς οἴστρῳ καὶ θεοβλαβείᾳ ἀπελαυνόμεναι, καὶ πολλὰ ἐφέστια ὅλα …

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.