ἔφαμεν (ephamen)

ἔφαμεν is an Ancient Greek form of φημί, meaning “to say, declare, claim”. It is the 1st person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 222 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 28.12: οὗτός ἐστι Τουβέρων ὃν ἔφαμεν μετὰ συγγενῶν οἰκεῖν ἑκκαιδέκατον, ἀπὸ γηδίου μικροῦ διατρεφομένων ἁπάντων.

Plato, Laches 199·2: … μοι δοκεῖς. οὐκ ἄρα, ὦ Νικία, μόριον ἀρετῆς ἂν εἴη τὸ νῦν σοι λεγόμενον, ἀλλὰ σύμπασα ἀρετή. ἔοικεν. καὶ μὴν ἔφαμέν γε τὴν ἀνδρείαν μόριον εἶναι ἓν τῶν τῆς ἀρετῆς. ἔφαμεν γάρ. τὸ δέ γε νῦν λεγόμενον οὐ φαίνεται. οὐκ ἔοικεν. ο …

All forms of φημί (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.