ᾔτουν (etoun)

ᾔτουν is an Ancient Greek form of αἰτέω, meaning “ask for, demand”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Electra 21: μνηστῆρες ᾔτουν Ἑλλάδος πρῶτοι χθονός.

Appianus of Alexandria, Punic Wars 1.3: … αρχηδονίων ἔχθει πρὸς αὐτὸν μετετίθεντο, καὶ τὴν χώραν ἐπιὼν ἐπόρθει. Καρχηδόνιοι δὲ Λακεδαιμονίους στρατηγὸν ἤτουν, οἰόμενοι διʼ ἀναρχίαν κακοπραγεῖν. οἱ μὲν δὴ Ξάνθιππον αὐτοῖς ἔπεμπον, ὁ δὲ Ἀτίλιος ἀμφὶ λίμνῃ στρατοπεδεύων …

All forms of αἰτέω (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.