λέγοιμʼ (legoim)

λέγοιμʼ is an Ancient Greek form of λέγω, meaning “to say, speak, tell”. It is the 1st person singular present active optative.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 848: λέγοιμʼ ἂν ἄλλων, δεῦρο δʼ αὐτὸς εἰσιδών.

Julian, Emperor of Rome, Letter to Themistius the Philosopher 5: Ὅτι δὲ οὐκ ἐγὼ μόνος τὴν τύχην ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐν τοῖς πρακτέοις κρατεῖν νενόμικα, λέγοιμ’ ἂν ἤδη σοι τὰ τοῦ Πλάτωνος ἐκ τῶν θαυμασίων Νόμων, εἰδότι μὲν καὶ διδάξαντί με, ἀπόδειξιν δὲ ὥσπερ τοῦ μὴ ῥᾳθ …

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.