ἀπέφηναν (apephenan)

ἀπέφηναν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀποφαίνω, meaning “show, declare”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De fraterno amore 18: … άξω, Ξέρξῃ δὲ πρώτῳ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἐπεὶ δʼ ἡ κρίσις ἐνέστη, Πέρσαι μὲν Ἀρτάβανον, ἀδελφὸν ὄντα Δαρείου, δικαστὴν ἀπέφηναν δόξαν αὐτοῖς, Ξέρξης δʼ ἔφευγεν ἐπʼ ἐκείνου κριθῆναι τῷ πλήθει πεποιθώς. Ἄτοσσα δʼ ἡ μήτηρ ἐπέπληξεν αὐτῷ, τί …

Appianus of Alexandria, Civil Wars 1.6.49: … ἦσαν αὐτοῖς, κατέλεξαν, ἵνα μὴ τῶν ἀρχαίων πλέονες ὄντες ἐν ταῖς χειροτονίαις ἐπικρατοῖεν, ἀλλὰ δεκατεύοντες ἀπεφηναν ἑτέρας, ἐν αἷς ἐχειροτόνουν ἔσχατοι. καὶ πολλάκις αὐτῶν ἡ ψῆφος ἀχρεῖος ἦν, ἅτε τῶν πέντε καὶ τριάκοντα προτέ …

All forms of ἀποφαίνω (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.