ᾐόνα (eona)

ᾐόνα is an Ancient Greek form of ἠιών, meaning “shore, beach”.

It can also be a form of αἰονάω, “moisten, foment”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.5: οἱ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι ἀνταναγαγόμενοι ἐναυμάχησαν περὶ Ἄβυδον κατὰ τὴν ᾐόνα, μέχρι δείλης ἐξ ἑωθινοῦ. καὶ τὰ μὲν νικώντων, τὰ δὲ νικωμένων, Ἀλκιβιάδης ἐπεισπλεῖ δυοῖν δεούσαις εἴκοσι ναυσίν.

All forms of ἠιών (declension 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.