εἴρηται (eiretai)

εἴρηται is an Ancient Greek form of ἐρῶ, meaning “I will say, will speak (future of λέγω)”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect middle/passive indicative.

It can also be a form of εἴρω, “string together; say, tell (future ἐρέω)”.

Found 1,257 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.22.1: … αἰεὶ παρόντων τὰ δέοντα μάλιστ’ εἰπεῖν, ἐχομένῳ ὅτι ἐγγύτατα τῆς ξυμπάσης γνώμης τῶν ἀληθῶς λεχθέντων, οὕτως εἴρηται.

Homeric Hymns, Hymn 3 to Delian and Pythian Apollo 544: εἴρηταί τοι πάντα· σὺ δὲ φρεσὶ σῇσι φύλαξαι.

New Testament, Luke 4.12: καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς ὅτι Εἴρηται

All forms of ἐρῶ (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.