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σάφʼ (saph)

σάφʼ is an Ancient Greek form of σάφα, meaning “clearly, surely”. It is the adverb.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 15.99: φθεγξεῖταί τι σάφʼ οἶδα καλόν· διαθρύπτεται ἤδη.

Euripides, Alcestis 796: στεφάνοις πυκασθείς; καὶ σάφ’ οἶδ’ ὁθούνεκα

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.