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λέγοιεν (legoien)

λέγοιεν is an Ancient Greek form of λέγω, meaning “to say, speak, tell”. It is the 3rd person plural present active optative.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 2.5: ὁπότε δὲ ψεγόντων ἢ ἐπαινούντων τινῶν ἀκούοι, οὐχ ἧττον ᾤετο δεῖν καταμανθάνειν τοὺς τῶν λεγόντων τρόπους ἢ περὶ ὧν λέγοιεν.

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.