ἴδωσι (idosi)

ἴδωσι is an Ancient Greek form of εἶδον, meaning “saw, looked at; (mid.) appeared”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active subjunctive.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lysander 11.1: … , ὀλιγώρως πάνυ καὶ καταφρονητικῶς, ὁ Λύσανδρος ἐκπέμπων τὰς κατασκόπους ναῦς ἐκέλευσε τοὺς τριηράρχους, ὅταν ἴδωσι τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἐκβεβηκότας, ἐλαύνειν ἀποστρέψαντας ὀπίσω τάχει παντί, καὶ γενομένους κατὰ μέσον τὸν πόρον ἀσπ …

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.19: … άνῃς τοὺς προσβοηθοῦντας, φοβήσονται οὗτοι καὶ οὐ κινήσονται, οἱ δʼ ἄγοντες εὐθὺς ἀφήσουσι τὴν λείαν, ἐπειδὰν ἴδωσί τινας ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἐλαύνοντας.

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.