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φέρʼ (pher)

φέρʼ is an Ancient Greek form of φέρω, meaning “to carry, bring, bear”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 87 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1234: νύκτας ὁμῶς καὶ τόσσα φέρʼ ἤματα, μέχρις ἵκοντο

Euripides, Cyclops 8: ἔκτεινα—φέρ’ ἴδω, τοῦτ’ ἰδὼν ὄναρ λέγω;

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi meretricii 10.3: Φέρ' ἴδωμεν· τὰ γράμματα οὐ πάνυ σαφῆ, ἀλλὰ ἐπισεσυρμένα δηλοῦντα ἔπειξίν τινα τοῦ γεγραφότος. λέγει δέ “πῶς μὲν ἐ …

All forms of φέρω (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.