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ἐγγύην (engyen)

ἐγγύην is an Ancient Greek form of ἐγγύη, meaning “pledge put into one's hand; surety, security”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa 3.2: … ταράττοντα καὶ κατακαίοντα ζηλοτυπίαις τοὺς πολλούς, ἐκεῖνα δὲ ὥσπερ αἰσχυνομένη ἀτυφία τίς, παρακάλυμμα τὴν ἐγγύην ἐφελκομένη καὶ τὸ δυσκαρτέρητον ἐξομολογουμένη τῆς κοινωνίας;

All forms of ἐγγύη (declension 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.