ἔωσι (eosi)

ἔωσι is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the 3rd person plural present active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of ἐάω, “to allow, permit, let be”.

Found 123 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.52.3: τοῦ δὲ οἴκαδε πλοῦ μᾶλλον διεσκόπουν ὅπῃ κομισθήσονται, δεδιότες μὴ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι νομίσαντες λελύσθαι τὰς σπονδάς, διότι ἐς χεῖρας ἦλθον, οὐκ ἐῶσι σφᾶς ἀποπλεῖν.

Euripides, Suppliants 122: κἄπειτά γʼ οἱ κτανόντες οὐκ ἐῶσί με.

Hippocrates, De aere, aquis, locis 3: … ὶ καῦσοι καὶ ὁκόσα ὀξέα νοσήματα νομίζονται εἶναι οὐκ ἐγγίνονται πολλά. οὐ γὰρ οἷόν τε, ὅκου ἂν κοιλίαι ὑγραὶ ἔωσι, τὰς νούσους ταύτας ἰσχύειν. ὀφθαλμίαι τε ἐγγίνονται ὑγραὶ καὶ οὐ χαλεπαί, ὀλιγοχρόνιοι, ἦν μή τι κατάσχῃ νόσ …

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.