ἐᾷς (eas)

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

It can also be a form of ἐάω, “to allow, permit, let be”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.14: πρὶν χείρεσσιν ἐμῇσιν ἑὰς ἀνὰ χεῖρας ἀεῖραι.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 17.50: ἐς ναὸν κατέθηκας, ἑᾶς δʼ ἀπεδάσσαο τιμᾶς.

Euripides, Andromache 228: τῷ σῷ προσίζειν ἀνδρὶ δειμαίνουσ’ ἐᾷς.

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.