ἔφης (ephes)

ἔφης is an Ancient Greek form of φημί, meaning “to say, declare, claim”.

It can also be a form of ἐφίημι, “send upon, let loose; (mid.) aim at, desire”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist active subjunctive.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.82: Ἤιτει Διονύσιον ἀργύριον, καὶ ὅς, ἀλλὰ μὴν ἔφης οὐκ ἀπορήσειν τὸν σοφόν· ὁ δʼ ὑπολαβών, δός, εἶπε, καὶ περὶ τούτου ζητῶμεν. δόντος δέ, ὁρᾷς, ἔφη, ὅτι οὐκ ἠπό …

Sophocles, Electra 554: ἀλλʼ ἢν ἐφῇς μοι, τοῦ τεθνηκότος θʼ ὕπερ

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.