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ἰέναι (ienai)

ἰέναι is an Ancient Greek form of εἶμι, meaning “to go, come”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 820 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1165: ὦρτʼ ἰέναι σὺν τοῖσι, πιφαυσκόμενος τὰ ἕκαστα,

Euripides, Heracles 320: κεντεῖν φονεύειν, ἱέναι πέτρας ἄπο.

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 2.2: … υμεν, ἕτερον αἴτιον οὔρων διακρίσεως, ἀλλʼ ἀναγκαῖον ἢ μαίνεσθαι δοκεῖν, εἰ φήσαιμεν ἀτμοειδῶς εἰς τὴν κύστιν ἴέναι τὸ οὖρον ἢ ἀσχημονεῖν τῆς πρὸς τὸ κενούμενον ἀκολουθίας μνημονεύοντας, ληρώδους μὲν οὔσης κἀπὶ τοῦ αἵματος, ἀ …

All forms of εἶμι (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.