ἔφην (ephen)

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

Found 829 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 20.2: … σοφιστὴν ὅτι παραληφθεὶς εἰς τὸ συσσίτιον οὐδὲν ἔλεγεν, ὁ εἰδώς, ἔφη, λόγον καὶ καιρὸν οἶδεν. ἃ δὲ τῶν πικρῶν ἔφην ἀπομνημονευμάτων οὐκ ἀμοιρεῖν χάριτος, τοιαῦτʼ ἐστί. Δημάρατος ἀνθρώπου πονηροῦ κόπτοντος αὐτὸν ἀκαίροις ἐρωτ …

Plutarch, De Defectu Oraculorum 23·2: … δῇ παράλογον καὶ πάσης πιθανότητος ἀπηρτημένον, εἰ μὴ τι σὺ λέγεις ἔφη πρὸς ἐμὲ βλέψας.ʼ κἀγὼ δοκεῖ γὰρ οὕτως ἔφηνʼ ἀφέντας ἤδη τὸν περὶ χρηστηρίων λόγον ὡς τέλος ἔχοντα, μεταλαμβάνειν ἕτερον τοσοῦτον οὐκ ἀφέντας εἶπεν ὁ Δημή …

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.