ἔφασκον (ephaskon)

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

Found 115 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.54: … δὲ καὶ ἀθεώτερον προεφέρετο τοῖς ὁμιλοῦσι, τοῦτο Θεοδώρειον ἀπολαύσας. καὶ ὕστερόν ποτε ἐμπεσὼν εἰς νόσον, ὡς ἔφασκον οἱ ἐν Χαλκίδι—αὐτόθι γὰρ καὶ κατέστρεψε—περίαπτα λαβεῖν ἐπείσθη καὶ μεταγινώσκειν ἐφʼ οἷς ἐπλημμέλησεν εἰς τὸ …

Procopius, Historia Arcana 4.34: ἔφασκόν τε ὡς τῶν δημοσίων χρημάτων Γελίμερός τε καὶ Οὐιττίγιδος τὸ πλεῖστον ἀποκρυψάμενος λάθρα ἔτυχε, μοῖραν δὲ αὐτῶν βραχεῖάν τέ τινα καὶ οὐδαμῆ ἀξιόλογον βασιλεῖ ἔδωκε.

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.