λαλῆσαι (lalesai)

λαλῆσαι is an Ancient Greek form of λαλέω, meaning “talk, speak”. It is the aorist active infinitive or 3rd person singular aorist active optative.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.39: … χωρίῳ γενόμενος πλήρει κυάμων, ἵνα [αὐτόθι] ἔστη, εἰπὼν ἁλῶναι ἂν μᾶλλον ἢ πατῆσαι [ἀναιρεθῆναι δὲ κρεῖττον ἢ λαλῆσαι]· καὶ ὧδε πρὸς τῶν διωκόντων ἀποσφαγῆναι. οὕτω δὲ καὶ τοὺς πλείους τῶν ἑταίρων αὐτοῦ διαφθαρῆναι, ὄντας πρὸς …

New Testament, Acts 23.18: ὁ μὲν οὖν παραλαβὼν αὐτὸν ἤγαγεν πρὸς τὸν χιλίαρχον καί φησιν Ὁ δέσμιος Παῦλος προσκαλεσάμενός με ἠρώτησεν τοῦτον τὸν νεανίαν ἀγαγεῖν πρὸς σέ, ἔχοντά τι λαλῆσαί σοι.

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 2.5.20: … ὁ Μίνως ἐννέωρος βασιλεὺς ὀαριστὴς Διός, ἀκηκοότων αὐτῶν, ὅπως ποτὲ μετὰ Μωυσέως διελέγετο ὁ θεός, ὡς εἴ τις λαλήσαι πρὸς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ φίλον.

All forms of λαλέω (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.