ἔγωγʼ (egon)

ἔγωγʼ is an Ancient Greek form of ἐγώ, meaning “I”. It is the nominative singular masculine pronoun.

Found 292 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.36: … εν, ὅτι Ξανθίππη βροντῶσα καὶ ὕδωρ ποιήσει; πρὸς Ἀλκιβιάδην εἰπόντα ὡς οὐκ ἀνεκτὴ ἡ Ξανθίππη λοιδοροῦσα, ἀλλʼ ἔγωγʼ, ἔφη, συνείθισμαι, καθαπερεὶ καὶ τροχιλίας ἀκούων συνεχές.

Euripides, Hippolytus 321: μὴ δρῶσ’ ἔγωγ’ ἐκεῖνον ὀφθείην κακῶς.

Plato, Phaedo 93: … ιν ἐν αὑτῇ ἁρμονίᾳ οὔσῃ ἄλλην ἁρμονίαν, τὴν δὲ ἀνάρμοστον αὐτήν τε εἶναι καὶ οὐκ ἔχειν ἐν αὑτῇ ἄλλην; οὐκ ἔχω ἔγωγ᾽, ἔφη ὁ Σιμμίας, εἰπεῖν· δῆλον δ’ ὅτι τοιαῦτ’ ἄττ’ ἂν λέγοι ὁ ἐκεῖνο ὑποθέμενος. ἀλλὰ προωμολόγηται, ἔφη, μηδὲ …

All forms of ἐγώ (declension 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.