εἰμί The whole of the pres. ind. (except 2nd sg. εἶ) may be enclitic when εἰμί is the Copula; but the 3rd sg. is written ἔστι in certain cases of emphasis, e. g. ἔστι μοι, I have: when used as Verb Subst., it retains the accent in all persons. as Substantive Verb, to be, to exist, οὐκ ἔσθʼ οὗτος ἀνήρ, οὐδʼ ἔσσεται Od.; τεθνηῶτος, μηδʼ ἔτʼ ἐόντος Od.; οὐκέτʼ ἔστι he is no more, Eur.; θεοὶ αἰὲν ἐόντες Il.; ἐσσόμενοι posterity, Il.; ζώντων καὶ ὄντων Ἀθηναίων Dem.:—so of cities, etc., ὄλωλεν, οὐδʼ ἔτʼ ἔστι Τροία (cf. Troja fuit), Eur. of things, to be, exist, εἰ ἔστιν ἀληθέως ἡ τράπεζα Hdt.; ἕως ἂν ὁ πόλεμος ἦι so long as it last, Thuc. to be, opp. to appearing to be, as esse to videri, τὸν ἐόντα λόγον the true story, Hdt.; τὰ ὄντα ἀπαγγέλλειν Thuc.; τῶι ὄντι, Lat. revera, in reality, in fact, Plat. foll. by the Relative, οὐκ ἔστιν ὅς, no one, Il., etc.; εἰσὶν οἵ, Lat. sunt qui, Thuc., etc.; ἐστὶν ἅ some things, Thuc.; also ἔστιν οἵ, for εἰσὶν οἵ, Hdt., etc.:—so withrelat. Particles, ἔστιν ἔνθα, Lat. est ubi, Xen., etc.; ἔστιν ὅπη, ἔσθʼ ὅπου, somewhere, or somehow, Plat., etc.; ἔστιν ὅπως in some manner, Hdt., etc.; ἔστιν ὅτε, ἔσθʼ ὅτε, sometimes, Soph., etc. ἔστι impers., c. inf., like πάρεστι, it is possible, Hom., Attic to be, Copula connecting predicate with subject, both being in the same case, Hom., etc. sometimes εἶναι with Part. represents finite Verb, ἦν τεθνηκώς, for ἐτεθνήκει, Aesch.; πεφυκός ἐστι πέφυκε, Ar. the Inf. is redundant in some phrases, ἑκὼν εἶναι (v. ἑκών II); τὸ ἐπʼ ἐκείνοις εἶναι quantum in illis esset, Thuc.; τὸ σύμπαν εἶναι Hdt.; τὸ νῦν εἶναι Plat., etc.