ἴσχυσαν (ischysan)

ἴσχυσαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἰσχύω, meaning “be strong, have power”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 79 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alcibiades 24.2: … λόγος ἦν· τῶν δʼ ἄλλων Σπαρτιατῶν οἱ δυνατώτατοι καὶ φιλοτιμότατοι τὸν Ἀλκιβιάδην ἤδη ἐβαρύνοντο διὰ φθόνον. ἴσχυσαν οὖν καὶ διεπράξαντο τοὺς οἴκοθεν ἄρχοντας ἐπιστεῖλαι πρὸς Ἰωνίαν ὅπως ἀποκτείνωσιν αὐτόν.

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 6.1.1: … · γενομένης οὖν ὥσπερ ἐν πηλῷ ξηρότητος, ποτοῦ μᾶλλον τὸ σῶμα δεῖσθαι πέφυκεν, ἄχρι οὗ πιόντων ἀναρρωσθὲν καὶ ἰσχῦσαν τὸ θερμὸν ἐμβριθοῦς τροφῆς ὄρεξιν ἐργάσηται.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 8.91.4: βοηθοῦσα. οὐ μὴν ἴσχυσάν γʼ οἱ τῶν στασιαστῶν λόγοι, ἀλλʼ ἐκύρωσε καὶ ὁ δῆμος τὸ τῆς βουλῆς δόγμα τῇ Σπορίου Λαρκίου γνώμῃ τε καὶ παρα …

All forms of ἰσχύω (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.