φησίν (phesin)

φησίν is an Ancient Greek form of φημί, meaning “to say, declare, claim”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 3,218 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.1: … υς, καὶ Γυμνοσοφιστὰς παρʼ Ἰνδοῖς, παρά τε Κελτοῖς καὶ Γαλάταις τοὺς καλουμένους Δρυΐδας καὶ Σεμνοθέους, καθά φησιν Ἀριστοτέλης ἐν τῷ Μαγικῷ καὶ Σωτίων ἐν τῷ εἰκοστῷ τρίτῳ τῆς Διαδοχῆς. Φοίνικά τε γενέσθαι Μῶχον, καὶ Θρᾷκα Ζά …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 7.1.3: … τὸ ὑγρὸν ἀπελαύνειν καὶ ἀποστρέφειν τῆς ἀρτηρίας, ὥστε καὶ τὸ σιτίον ὁμοῦ συνεκβαλεῖν ἐνταῦθα. φάρυγος ʽ γάρ φησινʼ ἐξέσσυτο οἶνος, ψωμοὶ τʼ ἀνδρόμεοι· χωρὶς εἰ μὴ τὸν Κύκλωπα φήσει τις ὥσπερ ὀφθαλμὸν σχεῖν ἕνα καὶ πόρον τροφ …

Demosthenes, On Halonnesus 44: καὶ οὕτως ὑβριστικῶς ὑμῖν κέχρηται ὥστε φήσιν, ἂν μὴ θέλωσι διαδικάζεσθαι οἱ Καρδιανοί, αὐτὸς ἀναγκάσειν, ὡς ὑμῶν γʼ οὐκ ἂν δυναμένων οὐδὲν ἀναγκάσαι Καρδι …

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.