ἴτω (ito)

ἴτω is an Ancient Greek form of εἶμι, meaning “to go, come”. It is the 3rd person singular present active imperative.

Found 98 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.3.73: … ωνος πυγμῇ χλωρὸν ἕλεν κότινον. εἰ δʼ ὁ πατὴρ στεφανοῦχον ἰδὼν τέκνον ἤμυσεν ἡσθείς, οὐ νεμεσητόν· ἐμοὶ τοῖος ἴτω θάνατος. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς εἰκόνος αὐτοῦ ἐπιγέγραπται τόδε· τόνδε δοριστέφανος Σπάρτα Χίλωνʼ ἐφύτευσεν, ὃς τῶν ἑπτὰ …

Plutarch, Caius Marius 39.3: … ἑαυτῶν ὡς βούλευμα βεβουλευκότων ἄνομον καὶ ἀχάριστον ἐπʼ ἀνδρὶ σωτῆρι τῆς Ἰταλίας, ᾧ μὴ βοηθῆσαι δεινὸν ἦν. ἲτω δʼοὖν ὅπῃ χρῄζει φυγάς ἀνατλησόμενος ἀλλαχόθι τὸ μεμορμένον. ἡμεῖς δὲ εὐχώμεθα μὴ νεμεσῆσαι θεοὺς Μάριον ἄπορ …

Aristophanes, Birds 228: ἰὼ ἰὼ ἰτὼ ἰτὼ ἰτὼ ἰτὼ,

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.