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φαμί (phami)

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

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.6.93: … · μέτρον ἄριστον. καὶ Σόλωνι ἐπέστειλεν οὕτω· Κλεόβουλος Σόλωνι “Πολλοὶ μέν τιν ἔασιν ἕταροι καὶ οἶκος πάντη· φαμὶ δὲ ἐγὼν ποτανεστάταν ἐσεῖσθαι Σόλωνι τὰν Λίνδον δαμοκρατεομέναν. καὶ ἁ νᾶσος πελαγία, ἔνθα οἰκέοντι οὐδὲν δει …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 8.7: φαμί τυ νικασεῖν, ὅσσον θέλω αὐτὸς ἀείδων.

Aristophanes, Acharnians 736: ἐγώνγα καὐτός φαμι. τίς δʼ οὕτως ἄνους

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.