ἐποιοῦντο (epoiounto)

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

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

Found 386 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.5.1: … , καὶ προσπίπτοντες πόλεσιν ἀτειχίστοις καὶ κατὰ κώμας οἰκουμέναις ἥρπαζον καὶ τὸν πλεῖστον τοῦ βίου ἐντεῦθεν ἐποιοῦντο, οὐκ ἔχοντός πω αἰσχύνην τούτου τοῦ ἔργου, φέροντος δέ τι καὶ δόξης μᾶλλον·

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 41.9.2: … εριφοιτῶντες ἐθορύβουν, καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν ἕω πολὺς μὲν πρὸς τοῖς ἱεροῖς οἶκτος (καὶ γὰρ ἑκασταχόθι περιιόντες εὐχὰς ἐποιοῦντὀ πάντας αὐτοὺς ἐλάμβανε· τούς τε γὰρ θεοὺς ἀνεκάλουν καὶ τὰ δάπεδα κατεφίλουν, ὁσάκις τε ἐξ οἵων περιεγένοντο …

Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.21.6: … ς τε αὑτῶν ἔθαπτον καὶ ἐσκύλευον τοὺς βαρβάρους, οἱ Γαλάται δὲ οὔτε ὑπὲρ ἀναιρέσεως τῶν νεκρῶν ἐπεκηρυκεύοντο ἐποιοῦντό τε ἐπʼ ἴσης γῆς σφᾶς τυχεῖν ἢ θηρία τε αὐτῶν ἐμφορηθῆναι καὶ ὅσον τεθνεῶσι πολέμιόν ἐστιν ὀρνίθων.

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.