φαίην (phaien)

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

Found 100 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.836: θαρσαλέη φαίην, καὶ κύματος ἀντιόωντος

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume I 6.284.2: κόλπους τὴν φαιὴν εἰργάσατο χλανίδα.

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.