ἐξῇ (exe)

ἐξῇ is an Ancient Greek form of ἔξεστι, meaning “it is allowed, possible”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.77.2: καὶ οὐδεὶς σκοπεῖ αὐτῶν τοῖς καὶ ἄλλοθί που ἀρχὴν ἔχουσι καὶ ἧσσον ἡμῶν πρὸς τοὺς ὑπηκόους μετρίοις οὖσι διότι τοῦτο οὐκ ὀνειδίζεται· βιάζεσθαι γὰρ οἷς ἂν ἐξῇ, δικάζεσθαι οὐδὲν προσδέονται.

Aesop, Fables 376: Ἔδοξέ ποτε τῷ λύκῳ τὴν φύσιν τῷ σχήματι μεταλλάξασθαι, ὡς ἂν οὕτως ἀφθονίαν ἕξῃ τροφῆς· καὶ δορὰν οἰὸς περιβεβλημένος μετὰ τῆς ποίμνης ἐνέμετο, τὸν ποιμένα φενακίσας τῷ μηχανήματι. Νυκτὸς δ …

Hippocrates, De alimento 6: καὶ τὴν μὲν ἰδίην ἰδέην ἐξέβλαστησε· μεταβάλλει τε τὴν ἀρχαίην καὶ καταφέρεται· τρέφει δὲ πεττομένη· τὴν δὲ προτέρην ἰδέην ἐξαλλάσσει ἔστιν ὅτε καὶ τὰς προτέρας ἐξη μαύρωσεν.

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.