λέγει (legei)

λέγει is an Ancient Greek form of λέγω, meaning “to say, speak, tell”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 2,462 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.129.3: ἀντενεγέγραπτο δὲ τάδε· ‘ὧδε λέγει βασιλεὺς Ξέρξης Παυσανίᾳ. καὶ τῶν ἀνδρῶν οὕς μοι πέραν θαλάσσης ἐκ Βυζαντίου ἔσωσας κείσεταί σοι εὐεργεσία ἐν …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.8.101: … τὸν πόλεμον ἔπη ὀκτακόσια. παρέσχε δὲ καὶ ἀφορμὴν παροιμίας διὰ τὸ παρρησιαστὴς εἶναι, τὴν ἀπὸ Σκυθῶν ῥῆσιν. Λέγει δὲ αὐτὸν Σωσικράτης ἐλθεῖν εἰς Ἀθήνας κατὰ τὴν τεσσαρακοστὴν ἑβδόμην Ὀλυμπιάδα ἐπὶ ἄρχοντος Εὐκράτους. Ἕρμιππ …

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 5.30: … δὲ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ βασιλέως κατὰ θέαν τοῦ παιδὸς ἐρχομένου ʽἀγάπῃ γὰρ ὑπερβαλλούσῃ ἐφίλει αὐτόν̓, ἐν μιᾷ λεγει αὐτῷ ὁ υἱός· Μαθεῖν τι ἐπεθύμησα παρὰ σοῦ, ὦ δέσποτα καὶ βασιλεῦ, ἐφ’ ᾧ λύπη διηνεκὴς καὶ μέριμνα ἀδιάπαυστος …

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.