φῆσαι (phesai)

φῆσαι is an Ancient Greek form of φημί, meaning “to say, declare, claim”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist middle imperative or 3rd person singular aorist active optative.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pompey 62.1: … ματα λαβεῖν αὐτὸν ἐκ τοῦ ταμιείου θάνατον ἠπείλησε, καὶ προσέθηκε τῇ ἀπειλῇ τραχύτερον λόγον ἔφη γὰρ ὡς τοῦτο φῆσαι χαλεπὸν ἦν αὐτῷ μᾶλλον ἢ πρᾶξαι.

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 91.8: … ὶ τὸ ταμιεῖον ἀπέκλεισεν, ἠπείλησεν ἀποκτενεῖν αὐτόν· καταπλαγέντος δὲ τοῦ Μετέλλου , τοῦτο εἶπεν ὦ νεανίσκε, φῆσαί μοι χαλεπώτερον ἦν ἢ ποιῆσαι.

Plutarch, De Defectu Oraculorum 37: τί δῆτα, φήσαι τις ἄν, ὁ Πλάτων ἐπὶ τὰ πέντε σχήματα τὸν τῶν πέντε κόσμων ἀριθμὸν ἀνήνεγκεν, εἰπὼν ὅτι τῇ πέμπτῃ συστάσει ὁ …

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.