ἔφασκεν (ephasken)

ἔφασκεν is an Ancient Greek form of φάσκω, meaning “say, claim”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 187 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.1.1: Ἀναξίμανδρος Πραξιάδου Μιλήσιος. οὗτος ἔφασκεν ἀρχὴν καὶ στοιχεῖον τὸ ἄπειρον, οὐ διορίζων ἀέρα ἢ ὕδωρ ἢ ἄλλο τι. καὶ τὰ μὲν μέρη μεταβάλλειν, τὸ δὲ πᾶν ἀμε …

Procopius, De Bellis 7.32.15: ὥστε καὶ ἐς τῶν ὑπάτων τὸν δίφρον οὐ πολλῷ ἔμπροσθεν ἀναβεβήκει. ἀφικόμενός τε παρ’ αὐτὸν Ἀρσάκης ἔφασκέν οἱ λάθρα ἐν ἱερῷ τινι ἐντυχεῖν βούλεσθαι.

All forms of φάσκω (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.