ἔφασαν (ephasan)

ἔφασαν is an Ancient Greek form of φημί, meaning “to say, declare, claim”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 608 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.28.3: πόλεμον δὲ οὐκ εἴων ποιεῖν· εἰ δὲ μή, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀναγκασθήσεσθαι ἔφασαν, ἐκείνων βιαζομένων, φίλους ποιεῖσθαι οὓς οὐ βούλονται ἑτέρους τῶν νῦν ὄντων μᾶλλον ὠφελίας ἕνεκα.

Xenophon, Hellenica 3.3.7: πάλιν οὖν ἐρωτώντων· ὅπλα δὲ πόθεν ἔφασαν λήψεσθαι; τὸν δʼ εἰπεῖν ὅτι οἱ μὲν δήπου συντεταγμένοι ἡμῶν αὐτοὶ ἔφασάν γε ὅπλα κεκτήμεθα, τῷ δʼ ὄχλῳ, ἀγαγόντα εἰς τὸν σίδηρον ἐπιδεῖξαι αὐτὸν ἔφη πολλὰς μὲν μαχαίρας, πολλὰ δὲ ξίφ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 39.20.3: ἔφασανʼ ἐνταῦθα ὁ Κλώδιος τὸν Κικέρωνα μεταλαβὼν τῷ τε λόγῳ πολὺς ἐνέκειτο, ὅτι τὸ ἔδαφος τῆς οἰκίας ἱερωμένον τῇ Ἐλευθερίᾳ κατῳκοδόμησε, καὶ ἐπῆλθέ ποτε ἐπʼ αὐτὸ ὡς καὶ ἐκ θεμελίων αὖθις αὐτὴν ἀναιρήσων. καὶ οὐκ ἐποίησε μὲν

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.