ἦσθʼ (esth)

ἦσθʼ is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the 2nd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.794: ἧσθʼ αὔτως; ἐπεὶ οὐ μὲν ὑπʼ ἀνδράσι ναίεται ἄστυ,

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.66: πᾷ ποκʼ ἄρʼ ἦσθʼ, ὅκα Δάφνις ἐτάκετο, πᾷ ποκα Νύμφαι;

Euripides, Alcestis 636: οὐκ ἦσθ’ ἄρ’ ὀρθῶς τοῦδε σώματος πατήρ;

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.