φῄς (phes)

φῄς is an Ancient Greek form of φημί, meaning “to say, declare, claim”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 689 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.100: … τα ἄττα διερωτῶν ἴσχυε τῷ λόγῳ. Δοκεῖ δὲ θεὸς κληθῆναι, Στίλπωνος αὐτὸν ἐρωτήσαντος οὕτως, ἆρά γε, Θεόδωρε, ὃ φῂς εἶναι, τοῦτο καὶ εἶ; ἐπινεύσαντος δέ, φῂς δʼ εἶναι θεόν; τοῦ δʼ ὁμολογήσαντος, θεὸς εἶ ἄρα, ἔφη. δεξαμένου δʼ …

Euripides, Cyclops 127: τί φῄς; βορᾷ χαίρουσιν ἀνθρωποκτόνῳ;

Euripides, Heracleidae 391: ὅστις στρατηγεῖν φησʼ ἐπίστασθαι καλῶς,

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.