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ἐδίδου (edidou)

ἐδίδου is an Ancient Greek form of δίδωμι, meaning “to give, grant”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 214 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.83.6: ὁ δὲ ἄκοντος καὶ ἐκ διαφορᾶς ξυγγίγνεται, καὶ πεισθεὶς τοῖς λόγοις ἀπήγαγε τὴν στρατιὰν πρὶν ἐσβαλεῖν ἐς τὴν χώραν. Περδίκκας δὲ μετὰ τοῦτο τρίτον μέρος ἀνθ’ ἡμίσεος τῆς τροφῆς ἐδίδου, νομίζων ἀδικεῖσθαι.

Procopius, De Bellis 1.13.37: … εγέθους ἀντιστατοῦντος, οὐκ εὐπετῶς εἶχεν, Ἀνδρέας δὲ προτερήσας ʽτοῦτο γὰρ αὐτῷ ἡ κατὰ τὴν παλαίστραν μελέτη ἐδίδοὐ τῷ τε γόνατι ἐξανιστάμενον αὐτὸν ἔτυψε καὶ αὖθις εἰς τὸ ἔδαφος πεσόντα ἔκτεινε.

All forms of δίδωμι (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.