ψεύδομαι (pseudomai)

ψεύδομαι is an Ancient Greek form of ψεύδω, meaning “deceive; lie”. It is the 1st person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.11.120: … ς πάσης ἐν ἐμοὶ τέλος· ἢν δέ τι πλεῖον, Πυθαγόρῃ τὠμῷ λέγε ταῦθʼ, ὅτι πρῶτος ἁπάντων ἔστιν ἀνʼ Ἑλλάδα γῆν· οὐ ψεύδομαι ὧδʼ ἀγορεύων. Ἴων δʼ ὁ Χῖός φησιν περὶ αὐτοῦ. ὣς ὁ μὲν ἠνορέῃ τε κεκασμένος ἠδὲ καὶ αἰδοῖ καὶ φθίμενος ψυχῇ τ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 4.33.3: … οῦ κυρίους προειλόμην ποιῆσαι. ἔχεις τὸν τῆς ἐπιτροπῆς λόγον, ὦ Ταρκύνιε, καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἐπιχειρήσειας εἰπεῖν, ὡς ψεύδομαί τι τούτων.

All forms of ψεύδω (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.