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εἶεν
eien
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Where it lives
- Lysis 4 · 5.76/10k
- Protagoras 5 · 2.81/10k
- On the Cavalry Commander 1 · 1.74/10k
- Euthydemus 2 · 1.61/10k
- Parmenides 1 · 0.66/10k
- Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
- Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
- Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k
- Metaphysics 2 · 0.25/10k
- Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
- Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
- Enneads 2 · 0.09/10k
Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
In the wild
- εἶεν · eien Aristotle, Metaphysics book 3 (DIORISIS sentence 593)
- εἶεν · eien Aristotle, Metaphysics book 4 (DIORISIS sentence 874)
- εἶεν · eien Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1165b (DIORISIS sentence 3168)
- εἶεν · eien Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1174b (DIORISIS sentence 3559)
- εἶεν · eien Aristotle, Politics 1322a (DIORISIS sentence 2448)
- εἶεν · eien Herodotus, Histories 4.41.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4328)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. εἶεν (scan p. 331; entry #2285).
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