φάσεις (phaseis)

φάσεις is an Ancient Greek form of φημί, meaning “to say, declare, claim”.

It can also be a form of φάσις, “utterance, expression; statement, proposition”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 15.79: λεπτὰ καὶ ὡς χαρίεντα· θεῶν περονάματα φασεῖς.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 3.2.2: … οὐχ ὁρῶν δὲ ὅπως ἂν πείσειε τοὺς Ἀλβανοὺς στρατὸν αὑτῷ κατὰ Ῥωμαίων ἄγειν ἐπιτρέψαι μήτε δικαίας ἔχοντι προ- φάσεις μήτε ἀναγκαίας, μηχανᾶται δή τι τοιόνδε· τοῖς ἀπορωτάτοις Ἀλβανῶν καὶ θρασυτάτοις ἐφῆκε λῃ- στεύειν τοὺς Ῥωμα …

All forms of φημί (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.