ἐλάλει (elalei)

ἐλάλει is an Ancient Greek form of λαλέω, meaning “talk, speak”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Brutus 52.1: προϊούσης δὲ τῆς νυκτός ἀποκλίνας, ὡς ἔτυχε καθεζόμενος, πρὸς οἰκέτην ἑαυτοῦ Κλεῖτον ἐλάλει. σιωπῶντος δὲ τοῦ Κλείτου καὶ δακρύοντος, αὖθις ἐπισπασάμενος τὸν ὑπασπιστὴν Δάρδανον ἰδίᾳ τινὰς αὐτῷ προσέφερε λόγους.

All forms of λαλέω (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.