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λέξαι (lexai)

λέξαι is an Ancient Greek form of λέγω, meaning “to say, speak, tell”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 44 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.1.3: … ηραιὸς ὤν. καὶ ἔστιν ἡμῶν εἰς αὐτόν· ἀλλʼ εἰ μὴ Σπεύσιππον ἐμάνθανον ὧδε θανεῖσθαι, οὐκ ἂν ἔπεισέ μέ τις τόδε λέξαι· ὡς ἦν οὐχὶ Πλάτωνι πρὸς αἵματος· οὐ γὰρ ἀθυμῶν κάτθανεν ἂν διά τι σφόδρα μικρόν.

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.