λέγηται (legetai)

λέγηται is an Ancient Greek form of λέγω, meaning “to say, speak, tell”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive subjunctive.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.74: … ος δʼ 〈ὃ〉 ἢ ἀπὸ ψεύδους ἄρχεται ἢ μὴ εἰς ἀκόλουθον λήγει, οἷον ἐπεὶ νύξ ἐστι, Δίων περιπατεῖ, ἂν ἡμέρας οὔσης λέγηται. αἰτιῶδες δʼ ἀληθὲς μέν ἐστιν ὃ ἀρχόμενον ἀπʼ ἀληθοῦς εἰς ἀκόλουθον λήγει, οὐ μὴν ἔχει τῷ λήγοντι τὸ ἀρχόμενο …

Plato, Sophist 232: … ερὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα; τί γάρ; ἀλλὰ μὴν ἔν γε ταῖς ἰδίαις συνουσίαις, ὁπόταν γενέσεώς τε καὶ οὐσίας πέρι κατὰ πάντων λέγηταί τι, σύνισμεν ὡς αὐτοί τε ἀντειπεῖν δεινοὶ τούς τε ἄλλους ὅτι ποιοῦσιν ἅπερ αὐτοὶ δυνατούς; παντάπασί γε. τί δ …

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.