ἔην (een)

ἔην is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 216 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.134: Ναύπλιος. ἦ γὰρ ἔην Κλυτονήου Ναυβολίδαο·

Hippocrates, De capitis vulneribus 21: … ὶ ἄλλως καὶ τῇ μήλῃ πέριξ κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν τοῦ πρίονος. καὶ γὰρ πουλὺ θᾶσσον διαπρίεται τὸ ὀστέον, ἢν ὑπόπυόν τε ἐήν ἤδη καὶ διάπυον πρίῃς, καὶ πολλάκις τυγχάνει ἐπιπόλαιον ἐὸν τὸ ὀστέον, ἄλλως τε καὶ ἢν ταύτῃ τῆς κεφαλῆς ᾖ τὸ …

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo 1.2·2: … , μέσφι τῆς πρώτης τῶν κρισίμων περιόδου τάμνειν· εἰ δὲ προσωτέρω τοῦ δέοντος χρόνου ἑκταίῳ ἐόντι ἢ ἑβδομαίῳ, ἐῆν, πολλὸν πρὸ τῶν κρισίων ἐν τοῖσι ὀξέσι κενοῦν χρὴ, ἢ φαρμακεύειν, ἢ τοῖσι ἄλλοισι ἐρεθισμοῖσι χρέεσθαι. ἀτὰρ …

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.