φαῖμεν (phaimen)

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

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Pindar, Nemean 7.87: ἀνδρὸς ἀνήρ τι, φαῖμέν κε γείτονʼ ἔμμεναι

Plato, Phaedo 118: … συνέλαβε τὸ στόμα καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς. ἥδε ἡ τελευτή, ὦ Ἐχέκρατες, τοῦ ἑταίρου ἡμῖν ἐγένετο, ἀνδρός, ὡς ἡμεῖς φαῖμεν ἄν, τῶν τότε ὧν ἐπειράθημεν ἀρίστου καὶ ἄλλως φρονιμωτάτου καὶ δικαιοτάτου.

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.