ἐξόν (exon)

ἐξόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἔξεστι, meaning “it is allowed, possible”. It is the present active participle accusative singular neuter.

Found 275 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.18.5: ὃ νῦν ὑμῖν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, καλῶς ἔχει πρὸς ἡμᾶς πρᾶξαι,καὶ μή ποτε ὕστερον, ἢν ἄρα μὴ πειθόμενοι σφαλῆτε, ἃ πολλὰ ἐνδέχεται, νομισθῆναι τύχῃ καὶ τὰ νῦν προχωρήσαντα κρατῆσαι, ἐξὸν ἀκίνδυνον δόκησιν ἰσχύος καὶ ξυνέσεως ἐς τὸ ἔπειτα καταλιπεῖν.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 688: ἁπλᾶς δὲ λύπας ἐξόν, οὐκ οἴσω διπλᾶς.

Strabo, Geography 9.3.7: … αὶ τὸ Ἀμφικτυονικὸν σύστημα ἐκ τούτων συνετάχθη περί τε τῶν κοινῶν βουλευσόμενον καὶ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν ἕξον κοινοτέραν, ἅτε καὶ χρημάτων ἀποκειμένων πολλῶν καὶ ἀναθημάτων φυλακῆς καὶ ἁγιστείας δεομένων μεγάλης. τὰ πάλ …

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.