λεγόμενα (legomena)

λεγόμενα is an Ancient Greek form of λέγω, meaning “to say, speak, tell”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative plural neuter.

Found 417 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.23.3: τά τε πρότερον ἀκοῇ μὲν λεγόμενα, ἔργῳ δὲ σπανιώτερον βεβαιούμενα οὐκ ἄπιστα κατέστη, σεισμῶν τε πέρι, οἳ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἅμα μέρος γῆς καὶ ἰσχυρ …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.108: … ὁμοιομερῆ, τὰ δὲ ἀνομοιομερῆ. Τῶν ὄντων τὰ μέν ἐστι καθʼ ἑαυτά, τὰ δὲ πρός τι λέγεται. τὰ μὲν οὖν καθʼ ἑαυτὰ λεγόμενά ἐστιν ὅσα ἐν τῇ ἑρμηνείᾳ μηδενὸς προσδεῖται· ταῦτα δʼ ἂν εἴη οἷον ἄνθρωπος, ἵππος καὶ τἆλλα ζῷα.

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.