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ἴστω (isto)

ἴστω is an Ancient Greek form of οἶδα, meaning “to know”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active imperative.

Found 96 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.329: αὐτοῦ δʼ ἰλλομένοις ἐπὶ λαίφεσιν, ἠδὲ καὶ ἱστῷ

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 15.35: τοῦτο πρέπει· λέγε μοι, πόσσω κατέβα τοι ἀφʼ ἱστῶ;

Euripides, Rhesus 685: ἵστω. θάρσει.

All forms of οἶδα (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.