εἶμι
(ibo), 2nd pers. singular εἶ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 83, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 990 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect and Ionic dialect εἶς [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 208, εἶσθα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.450, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.69 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. singular εἶσ; plural ἴμεν, ἴτε, ἴᾱσι: imperative ἴθι (also εἶ in the compound ἔξει [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 633 _accusative_ to Scholia, but probably _indicative_)] Refs 5th c.BC+], 3rd.pers. plural ἴτωσαν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1480, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 765a, also ἴτων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 32, ἰόντων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.118, etc.: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]subjunctive ἴω (εἴω [[ 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 48)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 2nd pers. singular ἴῃσθα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.67 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular ἴῃσι [[ 9.701 ] Refs]; Epic dialect plural ἴομεν (for -ωμεν) [[ 2.440: _optative_ ἴοιμι, οις, οι, 14.21 ] Refs], etc.; ἰοίην [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 159, “IG” 4.760 (from Troezen), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.16, (διεξ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.98 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; Epic dialect ἰείη [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.209, compare περι-ιεῖεν “IG” 22.1126.18 (Amphict. Delph.), εἴη 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.139, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.496, εἴηι “GDI” 4986.7 (from Crete): ] Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive ἰέναι, Epic dialect ἴμεναι (ι in [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.365) or ἴμεν, also ἰέμεν 4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 3.1.106 (uncertain reading), ἴναι [ῐ] ] Refs 8th c.BC+] Oracle texts cited in [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 9.2.23, (ἐξ-) Machoap. 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.580c, compare “Etymologicum Magnum” 467.18 (προσ-εῖναι uncertain in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 353): ] Refs 8th c.BC+]participle ἰών, ἰοῦσα, ἰόν: imperfect ᾔειν, ᾔεις (δι-ῄεισθα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 26c, ἐπεξ-ῄεισθα “Euthphr.” 4b), ᾔει or -ειν [prev. author] “Ti.” 38c, “Criti.” 117e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect and Ionic dialect ἤϊα, 3rd.pers. singular ἤϊε (-εν), contraction ᾖε [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.257; dual ᾔτην 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 294d; 1 and _2nd pers._ _plural_, ᾖμεν, ᾖτε] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural, Epic dialect and Ionic dialect ἤϊσαν, Epic dialect also ἴσαν, Attic dialect ᾖσαν (μετ-) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 605, compare “fragment” 161, (ἐπ-) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.445, later ᾔεσαν (εἰσ-) 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 32.1, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also 3rd.pers. singular ἴε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.872, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 1st pers. plural ᾔομεν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.251, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+], 3rd.pers. dual ἴτην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.347 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural ἤϊον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.370 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—middle present and imperfect ἴεμαι, ἰέμην are mere mistakes for ἵεμαι, ἱέμην (from ἵημι),compare [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1242, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 698 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—for future εἴσομαι and aorist middle εἰσάμην, in 3rd.pers. singular εἴσατο, ἐείσατο, 3rd.pers. dual ἐεισάσθην, see at {εἴσομαι} 11.—The indicative εἶμι usually has present sense in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] (future, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.426, 18.280)] Refs 8th c.BC+], but in Ionic dialect Prose and _Attic dialect_ it serves as future to ἔρχομαι (which see), I shall go, shall come: the present sense is sometimes found in Poetry, proverbial αὐτόματοι δ᾽ ἀγαθοὶ ἀγαθῶν ἐπὶ δαῖτας ἴασι [[compare (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 174b), compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.90, ] Refs 5th c.BC+] also in compounds (προς-) [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 242, (ἐπ-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.61, (συν-) 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.2.2. [ῐ- in all tenses, except in _Epic dialect_ Subj. ἴομεν for ἴωμεν] Refs 5th c.BC+] at the beginning of a verse]:—come or go, the special senses being given by the context, οἴκαδ᾽ ἴμεν go home, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.155; τάχ᾽ εἶσθα θύραζε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.69, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; come, οὐδέ μιν οἴω νῦν ἰέναι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.710, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; go, depart, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.367; ὑπὸ τεῖχος ἰόντας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.264. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]