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λέγʼ (len)

λέγʼ is an Ancient Greek form of λέγω, meaning “to say, speak, tell”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 115 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 2.62: καὶ λέγʼ ἐπιφθύζοισα· τὰ Δέλφιδος ὀστία μάσσω.

Euripides, Cyclops 443: λέγ’, ὡς Ἀσιάδος οὐκ ἂν ἥδιον ψόφον

Sophocles, Ichneutae 343: [ τ]ἀληθῆ λέγ[ω.

All forms of λέγω (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.