ἐῶσιν (eosin)

ἐῶσιν is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the 3rd person plural present active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of ἐάω, “to allow, permit, let be”.

Found 76 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.69.1: … Καρίας καὶ Λυκίας καὶ Μελήσανδρον στρατηγόν, ὅπως ταῦτά τε ἀργυρολογῶσι καὶ τὸ λῃστικὸν τῶν Πελοποννησίων μὴ ἐῶσιν αὐτόθεν ὁρμώμενον βλάπτειν τὸν πλοῦν τῶν ὁλκάδων τῶν ἀπὸ Φασήλιδος καὶ Φοινίκης καὶ τῆς ἐκεῖθεν ἠπείρου.

Hippocrates, De aere, aquis, locis 4: … ῖ τάδε· πλευρίτιδές τε πολλαὶ αἵ τε ὀξεῖαι νομιζόμεναι νοῦσοι. ἀνάγκη δὲ ὧδε ἔχειν, ὁκόταν αἱ κοιλίαι σκληραὶ ἔωσιν· ἔμπυοί τε πολλοὶ γίνονται ἀπὸ πάσης προφάσιος. τούτου δὲ αἴτιόν ἐστι τοῦ σώματος ἡ ἔντασις καὶ ἡ σκληρότης τ …

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.