φήσας (phesas)

φήσας is an Ancient Greek form of φημί, meaning “to say, declare, claim”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 203 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.33: Εὐριπίδου δʼ ἐν τῇ Αὔγῃ εἰπόντος περὶ ἀρετῆς, κράτιστον εἰκῆ ταῦτʼ ἐᾶν ἀφειμένα, ἀναστὰς ἐξῆλθε, φήσας γελοῖον εἶναι ἀνδράποδον μὲν μὴ εὑρισκόμενον ἀξιοῦν ζητεῖν, ἀρετὴν δʼ οὕτως ἐᾶν ἀπολωλέναι. ἐρωτηθεὶς πότερον …

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.