ἐποίουν (epoioun)

ἐποίουν is an Ancient Greek form of ποιέω, meaning “to make, do, create”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

It can also be a form of ποιόω, “make of a certain quality”.

Found 336 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.65.11: … ἐπιγιγνώσκοντες, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὰς ἰδίας διαβολὰς περὶ τῆς τοῦ δήμου προστασίας τά τε ἐν τῷ στρατοπέδῳ ἀμβλύτερα ἐποίουν καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν πόλιν πρῶτον ἐν ἀλλήλοις ἐταράχθησαν.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 39.32.3: … λʼ ἐκείνους μέν, τούς τε ἄλλους τοὺς ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου αἱρουμένους, πρὸς τρόπου σφίσιν (αὐτοὶ γὰρ τὰς ἀρχαιρεσίας ἐποίουνʼ ἀπέδειξαν, τούς τε ἀγορανόμους τοὺς ἑτέρους καὶ τῶν δημάρχων τοὺς πλείους προσηταιρίσαντο· δύο δὲ δήμαρχοι, γ …

All forms of ποιέω (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.