φαμεν (phamen)

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

Found 565 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.38.2: ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐδ’ αὐτοί φαμεν ἐπὶ τῷ ὑπὸ τούτων ὑβρίζεσθαι κατοικίσαι, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τῷ ἡγεμόνες τε εἶναι καὶ τὰ εἰκότα θαυμάζεσθαι.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.2.15: Φαμὲν δὲ καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν οὑτωσί· χαλκῇ προσκόψας λεκάνῃ ποτὲ καὶ τὸ μέτωπον πλήξας ἴαχεν ὦ σύντονον, εἶτʼ ἔθανεν, ὁ π …

Pindar, Olympian 1.35: ἔστι δʼ ἀνδρὶ φάμεν ἐοικὸς ἀμφὶ δαιμόνων καλά· μείων γὰρ αἰτία.

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.