ἤλαυνον (elaunon)

ἤλαυνον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλαύνω, meaning “to drive, ride, march”. It is the 1st person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.944: γνάμψαντες παρὰ πουλὺν ἔπειτʼ ἤλαυνον ἐρετμοῖς

Lucian of Samosata, Verae historiae 2.45: … ς κατέχοντες ἐμπίπτοντος τοῦ ἀνέμου ἔπλεον. ἄλλοι δὲ μετὰ τούτους ἐπὶ φελλῶν καθήμενοι ζεύξαντες δύο δελφῖνας ἤλαυνόν τε καὶ ἡνιόχουν· οἱ δὲ προιόντες ἐπεσύροντο τοὺς φελλούς. οὗτοι ἡμᾶς οὔτε ἠδίκουν οὔτε ἔφευγον, ἀλλʼ ἤλαυνον …

All forms of ἐλαύνω (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.