ἐλᾷ (ela)

ἐλᾷ is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλαύνω, meaning “to drive, ride, march”. It is the 3rd person singular future active indicative.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.4.80: … ὐρείῃ παῖδες ἐνὶ τριόδῳ. κείνων ἔρχεο, φησί, μετʼ ἴχνια. χὠ μὲν ἐπέστη πλησίον· οἱ δʼ ἔλεγον· τὴν κατὰ σαυτὸν ἔλα. ταῦτʼ ἀΐων ὁ ξεῖνος ἐφείσατο μείζονος οἴκου δράξασθαι, παίδων κληδόνα συνθέμενος. τὴν δʼ ὀλίγην ὡς κεῖνος ἐς …

Euripides, Andromache 710: ἐλᾷ δι’ οἴκων τῶνδ’ ἐπισπάσας κόμης·

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 208: Ἰόνιον κατὰ πόντον ἐλά-

All forms of ἐλαύνω (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.