ἐφρούρουν (ephrouroun)

ἐφρούρουν is an Ancient Greek form of φρουρέω, meaning “guard, keep watch”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 44 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.64.1: τὸ δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ [τεῖχος ] εὐθὺς οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἀποτειχίσαντες ἐφρούρουν· τὸ δ’ ἐς τὴν Παλλήνην ἀτείχιστον ἦν· οὐ γὰρ ἱκανοὶ ἐνόμιζον εἶναι ἔν τε τῷ ἰσθμῷ φρουρεῖν καὶ ἐς τὴν Παλλήνη …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.82.4: … ῶν φυλάκων τις καταμαθών ʽἦν δὲ πολεμίων ἐφόδου δέος, καὶ τὰς πύλας οἱ μάλιστα πιστευόμενοι πρὸς τοῦ βασιλέως ἐφρούρουνʼ συλλαμβάνει τε καὶ τὸ κρυπτὸν ὅ τι δήποτʼ ἦν καταμαθεῖν ἀξιῶν, ἀποκαλύπτει βίᾳ τὴν περιβολήν. ὡς δὲ τὴν σκάφη …

All forms of φρουρέω (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.