ἤμην (emen)

ἤμην is an Ancient Greek form of ἧμαι, meaning “sit, be seated”. It is the 1st person singular pluperfect middle indicative.

Found 87 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.56: … οφήν σε αἰτῶ, οὐκ εἰς ταφήν. ὀνειδιζόμενός ποτε ἐπὶ τῷ παραχαράξαι τὸ νόμισμα ἔφη, ἦν ποτε χρόνος ἐκεῖνος ὅτʼ ἤμην ἐγὼ τοιοῦτος ὁποῖος σὺ νῦν· ὁποῖος δʼ ἐγὼ νῦν, σὺ οὐδέποτε. καὶ πρὸς ἄλλον ἐπὶ τῷ αὐτῷ ὀνειδίσαντα, καὶ γὰρ ἐ …

Sophocles, Trachiniae 24: ἐγὼ γὰρ ἥμην ἐκπεπληγμένη φόβῳ

Aesop, Fables 160: … τὸν Πλοῦτον ὑποβλέπεται. Ὁ δὲ εἶπεν· “ἀλλʼ ἔγωγε διὰ τοῦτο αὐτὸν ὑποβλέπομαι, ὅτι παρʼ ὅν καιρὸν ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἢμην, ἑώρων αὐτὸν ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖστον τοῖς πονηροῖς συνόντα.“ Ὁ λόγος λεχθείη ἂν ἐπʼ ἀνδρὸς πλουσίου μὲν τὴν τύχην, …

All forms of ἧμαι (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.