ἔγραφον (egraphon)

ἔγραφον is an Ancient Greek form of γράφω, meaning “write; draw”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.15: … θʼ ἑξακοσίων οὐκ ἐλάττους ἐπὶ τὴν νυκτερινὴν ἀκρόασιν ἀπήντων αὐτοῦ· καὶ εἴ τινες ἀξιωθεῖεν αὐτὸν θεάσασθαι, ἔγραφον πρὸς τοὺς οἰκείους ὡς μεγάλου τινὸς τετυχηκότες. Μεταποντῖνοί γε μὴν τὴν μὲν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ Δήμητρος ἱερὸν ἐκάλ …

Arrian, Cynegeticus 5.2: καὶ τὰ ἄλλα δὲ πραοτάτη τέ ἐστιν ʽἔτι γάρ μοι ἦν, ὁπότε ταῦτα ἔγραφονʼ καὶ φιλανθρωποτάτη, καὶ οὔπω πρόσθεν ἄλλη κύων ὡς αὐτὴ οὔτε ἐμὲ ἐπόθησεν οὔτε τὸν ἑταῖρον τὸν ἐμὸν καὶ σύνθηρ …

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War 1.661: Ταῦτα ἐνετέλλετο, καὶ παρὰ τῶν ἐν Ῥώμῃ πρέσβεων ἧκον ἐπιστολαί, διʼ ὧν Ἀκμὴ μὲν ἀνῃρημένη κελεύσαντος Καίσαρος ἐδηλοῦτο, θανάτῳ δʼ Ἀντίπατρος κατάκριτος· ἔγραφόν γε μὴν ὡς, εἰ καὶ φυγαδεύειν αὐτὸν ἐθελήσειεν ὁ πατήρ, ἐπιτρέποι Καῖσαρ.

All forms of γράφω (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.