ἰδών (idon)

ἰδών is an Ancient Greek form of εἶδον, meaning “saw, looked at; (mid.) appeared”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 1,166 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.606: ἐκ μακάρων, εὖτʼ ἄν τις ἰδὼν διὰ νηὶ περήσῃ.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.93.7: ταῖς γὰρ ναυσὶ μάλιστα προσέκειτο, ἰδών, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, τῆς βασιλέως στρατιᾶς τὴν κατὰ θάλασσαν ἔφοδον εὐπορωτέραν τῆς κατὰ γῆν οὖσαν· τόν τε Πειραιᾶ …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.52: Ἰδών ποτε δραπέτην ἐπὶ φρέατι καθήμενον ἔφη, μειράκιον, βλέπε μὴ ἐμπέσῃς. ἰδὼν [μειρακύλλιον] ἱματιοκλέπτην ἐν τῷ …

All forms of εἶδον (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.