σαφῶς (saphos)

σαφῶς is an Ancient Greek form of σαφής, meaning “clear”. It is the adverb.

Found 843 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.1.3: τὰ γὰρ πρὸ αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ ἔτι παλαίτερα σαφῶς μὲν εὑρεῖν διὰ χρόνου πλῆθος ἀδύνατα ἦν, ἐκ δὲ τεκμηρίων ὧν ἐπὶ μακρότατον σκοποῦντί μοι πιστεῦσαι ξυμβαίνει οὐ μεγάλα νομίζω γενέσθαι οὔτε κατὰ τοὺς πολέμους οὔτε ἐς τὰ ἄλλα.

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 11.4: Σαφῶς νῦν μανθάνω· δύο γὰρ φῂς ἔτεκεν ἡ Ἀλκμήνη κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ Ἡρακλέας, τὸν μὲν ὑπ' Ἀμφιτρύωνι, τὸν δὲ παρὰ τοῦ Διός …

All forms of σαφής (declension 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.