ἐόν (eon)

ἐόν is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”.

It can also be a form of ἑός, “his, her, its own”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 237 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.140: Ἄργος, ἐπεὶ δεδαὼς τὸν ἑὸν μόρον οἰωνοῖσιν

Plutarch, De Heroditi malignate 15: … ρον · τοῖς δὲ θεοῖς λοιδορούμενος ἐν τῷ Σόλωνος προσωπείῳ ταῦτʼ εἴρηκεν ὦ Κροῖσε, ἐπιστάμενόν με τὸ θεῖον πᾶν ἐὸν φθονερόν τε καὶ ταραχῶδες ἐπειρωτᾷς ἀνθρωπηίων πέρι πραγμάτων· ἃ γὰρ αὐτὸς ἐφρόνει περὶ τῶν θεῶν τῷ Σόλωνι πρ …

Hesiod, Works and Days 360: καί τε σμικρὸν ἐόν, τό γʼ ἐπάχνωσεν φίλον ἦτορ.

All forms of εἰμί (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.