ἔβαλλον (eballon)

ἔβαλλον is an Ancient Greek form of βάλλω, meaning “to throw, hit, strike”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 121 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.995: πέτρας ἀμφιρρῶγας ἀερτάζοντες ἔβαλλον.

Xenophon, Hellenica 4.6.8: … μνην λειμῶνός τε καὶ πεδίου στενὴ διὰ τὰ κύκλῳ περιέχοντα ὄρη· καταλαβόντες δὲ οἱ Ἀκαρνᾶνες ἐκ τῶν ὑπερδεξίων ἔβαλλόν τε καὶ ἠκόντιζον, καὶ ὑποκαταβαίνοντες εἰς τὰ κράσπεδα τῶν ὀρῶν προσέκειντο καὶ πράγματα παρεῖχον, ὥστε οὐκέτ …

All forms of βάλλω (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.