εἴποι (eipoi)

εἴποι is an Ancient Greek form of εἶπον, meaning “to speak, say”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active optative.

Found 416 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70.9: ὥστε εἴ τις αὐτοὺς ξυνελὼν φαίη πεφυκέναι ἐπὶ τῷ μήτε αὐτοὺς ἔχειν ἡσυχίαν μήτε τοὺς ἄλλους ἀνθρώπους ἐᾶν, ὀρθῶς ἂν εἴποι.

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 29: … ἕψῃ κατὰ τὰ Χρυσίππου καὶ Ζήνωνος ἴχνη προϊών. ἄλλως δὲ ἀδύνατον. Ὁρᾷς τοῦτο ὡς κοινόν, ὦ Ἑρμότιμε, εἴρηκας; εἶποι γὰρ ἂν αὐτὸ καὶ ὁ τῷ Πλάτωνι ξυνοδοιπορῶν καὶ ὁ Ἐπικούρῳ ἑπόμενος καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι, μὴ ἂν ἐλθεῖν με εἰς τὴν Κόριν …

All forms of εἶπον (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.