ἦγεν (egen)

ἦγεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἄγω, meaning “to lead, bring, carry off”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 325 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.38: ὁππότε μιν τὰ πρῶτα παραὶ Διὸς ἦγεν ἄκοιτιν.

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 2.6.2: ὁ δὲ τότε μὲν ἐπαινέσας αὐτοὺς διέλυσε τὸν ξύλλογον, τῇ δὲ ὑστεραίᾳ προ[ς]ῆγεν ὡς ἐπὶ Δαρεῖόν τε καὶ τοὺς Πέρσας. δευτεραῖος δὲ ὑπερβαλὼν τὰς πύλας ἐστρατοπέδευσε πρὸς Μυριάνδρῳ πόλει· καὶ …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.23.155: … έθεν. ὄνομα δὲ Μωυσῆν ὠνόμαζ’, ὅτου χάριν ὑγρᾶς ἀνεῖλε ποταμίας ἀπ’ ᾐόνος. ἐπεὶ δὲ καιρὸς νηπίων παρῆλθέ μοι, ἦγέν με μήτηρ βασιλίδος πρὸς δώματα, ἅπαντα μυθεύσασα καὶ λέξασά μοι, γένος πατρῷον καὶ θεοῦ δωρήματα. ἕως μὲν οὖν …

All forms of ἄγω (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.