ἐφθέγξατο (ephthenxato)

ἐφθέγξατο is an Ancient Greek form of φθέγγομαι, meaning “utter, speak”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle indicative.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 1147: πρὶν δή τις ἀδύτων ἐκ μέσων ἐφθέγξατο

Plutarch, De Heroditi malignate 39: … σας ἀποστρέψας· εἶτα μέντοι κέλης ἐλαυνόμενος αὐτῷ συνέτυχε περὶ τὰ λήγοντα τῆς Σαλαμινίας, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ κέλητος ἐφθέγξατό τις σὺ μέν, ὦ Ἀδείμαντε, φεύγεις καταπροδοὺς τοὺς Ἕλληνας · οἱ δὲ καὶ δὴ νικῶσι, καθάπερ ἠρῶντο ἐπικρατῆσαι τ …

All forms of φθέγγομαι (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.