ἐγών (egon)

ἐγών is an Ancient Greek form of ἐγώ, meaning “I”. It is the nominative singular masculine pronoun.

Found 219 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.689: ἦ μὲν ἐγών, εἰ καί με τὰ νῦν ἔτι πεφρίκασιν

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.45: καὶ ἄλλο· τὰς φρένας ἢν ἐθέλῃς τὰς Πυθαγόραο νοῆσαι, ἀσπίδος Εὐφόρβου βλέψον ἐς ὀμφάλιον. φησὶ γὰρ οὗτος, Ἐγὼν ἦν πρόβροτος· ὃς δʼ ὅτε οὐκ ἦν, φάσκων ὥς τις ἔην, οὔτις ἔην ὅτʼ ἔην. καὶ ἄλλο, ὡς ἐτελεύτα· αἲ, αἴ, Πυθαγόρη …

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 15.1: . . . ]λαν· ἔγων δʼ ἔμʼ αὔτᾳ

All forms of ἐγώ (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.