φήμʼ (phem)

φήμʼ is an Ancient Greek form of φημί, meaning “to say, declare, claim”. It is the 1st person singular present active indicative.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.6.36: … ὰ ὑμέτερα. ἤχθετο οὖν δὴ τοῖς μὴ καθʼ ὥραν τὰ μαθήματα ἀνειληφόσι. φυσικῶς δέ πως ἐν τῷ διαλέγεσθαι ἐχρῆτο τῷ Φημʼ ἐγώ, καί, Οὐ συγκαταθήσεται τούτοις ὁ δεῖνα, εἰπὼν τοὔνομα· ὃ καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν μαθητῶν ἐζήλουν 〈ὡσ〉 καὶ τὴν ῥητ …

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 603b: φήμʼ· ἀπαλλάσσου δὲ γῆς.

Euripides, Rhesus 813: πλὴν σοῦ; σὲ γὰρ δὴ φύλακά φημʼ εἶναι στρατοῦ.

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.