ἔλυσαν (elysan)

ἔλυσαν is an Ancient Greek form of λύω, meaning “loose, release, set free; pay a ransom”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

It can also be a form of ἐλύω, “roll up, wrap”.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.652: πείσματα νηὸς ἔλυσαν ἐπὶ πνοιῇ βορέαο.

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 9.251: … ῶται συνεχώρησαν ἐκείνοις ποιεῖν ὃ ἐδόκει συμφέρειν. παραλαβόντες οὖν οἱ προειρημένοι ἄνδρες τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους ἔλυσάν τε καὶ ἐπιμελείας ἠξίωσαν καὶ δόντες ἐφόδια εἰς τὴν οἰκείαν ἀπέλυσαν ἀβλαβεῖς, οὐδὲν δʼ ἧττον καὶ τέσσαρες αὐ …

All forms of λύω (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.