λέγεις (legeis)

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

Found 1,993 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.27: … γʼ ἀπορουμένη ἄνω κάτω τε περιπατοῦσʼ ὥσπερ Πλάτων σοφὸν οὐδὲν εὕρηκʼ, ἀλλὰ κοπιῶ τὰ σκέλη. καὶ ἐν Ἀγκυλίωνι· λέγεις περὶ ὧν οὐκ οἶσθα· συγγενοῦ τρέχων Πλάτωνι καὶ γνώσῃ λίτρον καὶ κρόμμυον. Ἄμφις Ἀμφικράτει· τὸ δʼ ἀγαθὸν ὅ τι …

Aristophanes, Wealth 395: λὲγεις ἀληθῆ;

Julian, Emperor of Rome, The Caesars 1: … ά σοί τε καὶ φίλῳ τῷ σῷ, μᾶλλον δὲ τῷ κοινῷ, Πλάτωνι διανοούμενος, ἐπεὶ καὶ αὐτῷ πολλὰ ἐν μύθοις ἐσπούδασται. Λέγεις ναὶ μὰ Δία ταῦτα ἀληθῆ. Τίς δὲ καὶ ποταπὸς ὁ μῦθος; Οὐ τῶν παλαιῶν τις, ὁποίους Αἴσωπος ἐποίησεν, ἀλλ’ εἴτε π …

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.