ἐλέγομεν (elegomen)

ἐλέγομεν is an Ancient Greek form of λέγω, meaning “to say, speak, tell”. It is the 1st person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 162 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.114: … ιν ἑαυτῶν δύναται συντελεῖσθαι καὶ παρʼ ἔκπτωσιν οὗ ἂν ἡ ἐκπνευμάτωσις γένηται, καθά περ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀστραπῶν ἐλέγομεν·

Plato, Philebus 23: … ῇ διαλάβωμεν, μᾶλλον δʼ, εἰ βούλει, τριχῇ. καθʼ ὅτι, φράζοις ἄν; λάβωμεν ἄττα τῶν νυνδὴ λόγων. ποῖα; τὸν θεὸν ἐλέγομέν που τὸ μὲν ἄπειρον δεῖξαι τῶν ὄντων, τὸ δὲ πέρας; πάνυ μὲν οὖν. τούτω δὴ τῶν εἰδῶν τὰ δύο τιθώμεθα, τὸ δὲ τρί …

All forms of λέγω (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.