Ἤεσαν

they were going

Translated by Catharine Roth9 Feb 2001Vetting: high7 revisions

4 words

[Meaning] they were proceeding.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἤεσαν· ἐπορεύοντο.

Betacode

*)/hesan: e)poreu/onto.

Same or similar entry in other lexica. The headword is the epic (and Attic) third person plural, imperfect, of ei)=mi; cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 10.197 (Homeric text at web address 1), and eta 116, eta 133.
The spelling h)/i+san may be preferable in epic. See Smyth §773 D (web address 2).