ἔφαγον (ephagon)

ἔφαγον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐσθίω, meaning “eat”. It is the 1st person singular aorist active indicative.

It can also be a form of φαγεῖν, “to eat”.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute 1.9: … παῖδας ἀστραγάλοις τοὺς δʼ ἄνδρας ὅρκοις ἐξαπατᾶν. τοῖς δὲ Σαρδαναπάλου μνημείοις ἐπιγέγραπται ταῦτʼ ἔχω ὅσσʼ ἔφαγον καὶ ἐφύβρισα. τίς οὐκ ἂν εἴποι τῶν ἀποφθεγμάτων τούτων τῷ μὲν ἀποφαίνεσθαι φιληδονίαν, τῷ δʼ ἀθεότητα, τῷ δʼ …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 2.17·2: … εἰς ἑτέραν μετέβησαν, ἔρημον οὖσαν εὑρήκασι· καὶ εἰς πλείους δὲ μεταβάντες ὡς οὐδενὶ ἐνετύγχανον, πρῶτον μὲν ἔφαγόν τε καὶ ἔπιον, εἶτα χρυσίον τε καὶ ἀργύριον καὶ ἱμάτια λαβόντες ἐκεῖθεν ἔκρυψαν, καὶ οὕτως εἰς τὴν πόλιν ἐλθόν …

All forms of ἐσθίω (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.