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ἐγεγόνει (egegonei)

ἐγεγόνει is an Ancient Greek form of γίγνομαι, meaning “to become, be born, happen”. It is the 3rd person singular pluperfect active indicative.

Found 349 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.3.71: … ς Ἕλλησιν ἐγένετο προειπὼν περὶ Κυθήρων τῆς νήσου τῆς Λακωνικῆς. καταμαθὼν γὰρ τὴν φύσιν αὐτῆς, εἴθε, ἔφη, μὴ ἐγεγόνει, ἢ γενομένη κατεβυθίσθη.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.48.3: … ἄτιτος ἐὼν ὑπὸ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ ἀπὸ γερέων ἱερῶν ἐξειργόμενος ἀνέτρεψε Πρίαμον· ἐργασάμενος δὲ ταῦτα εἷς Ἀχαιῶν ἐγεγόνεἰ.

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.