ἔλεγες (eleges)

ἔλεγες is an Ancient Greek form of λέγω, meaning “to say, speak, tell”. It is the 2nd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 123 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Non Posse Suaviter Vivi Secundum Epicurum 2: … ίδην, τοῦ Ἐπικούρου καὶ τοῦ Μητροδώρου, ἡμῖν μηδὲν αἰτίων ὄντων, θρασύτερον καθαψαμένοις. καὶ ὁ Θέων εἶτʼ οὐκ ἔλεγες εἶπεν ὅτι τοῖς ἐκείνων ὁ Κωλώτης παραβαλλόμενος εὐφημότατος ἀνδρῶν φαίνεται; τὰ γὰρ ἐν ἀνθρώποις αἴσχιστα ῥήμ …

Plato, Gorgias 459: οὐκοῦν περὶ πάντων ὥστʼ ἐν ὄχλῳ πιθανὸν εἶναι, οὐ διδάσκοντα ἀλλὰ πείθοντα; πάνυ μὲν οὖν. ἔλεγές τοι νυνδὴ ὅτι καὶ περὶ τοῦ ὑγιεινοῦ τοῦ ἰατροῦ πιθανώτερος ἔσται ὁ ῥήτωρ. καὶ γὰρ ἔλεγον, ἔν γε ὄχλῳ. οὐκοῦν …

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.