ἐᾶτε (eate)

ἐᾶτε is an Ancient Greek form of ἐάω, meaning “to allow, permit, let be”. It is the 2nd person plural present active imperative.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.86.5: ψηφίζεσθε οὖν, ὦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, ἀξίως τῆς Σπάρτης τὸν πόλεμον, καὶ μήτε τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἐᾶτε μείζους γίγνεσθαι μήτε τοὺς ξυμμάχους καταπροδιδῶμεν, ἀλλὰ ξὺν τοῖς θεοῖς ἐπίωμεν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας.’

Euripides, Medea 314: ἐᾶτέ μ’ οἰκεῖν. καὶ γὰρ ἠδικημένοι

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 671: ἐατέʼ· οὐ χρὴ τοιάδʼ εἰδέναι κόρας.

All forms of ἐάω (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.