ἔφησθα (ephestha)

ἔφησθα is an Ancient Greek form of φημί, meaning “to say, declare, claim”. It is the 2nd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 68 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Demosthenes, On the Crown 70: … δὲ καὶ Δορίσκον καὶ τὴν Πεπαρήθου πόρθησιν καὶ ὅσʼ ἄλλʼ ἡ πόλις ἠδικεῖτο, οὐδʼ εἰ γέγονεν οἶδα. καίτοι σύ γʼ ἔφησθά με ταῦτα λέγοντʼ εἰς ἔχθραν ἐμβαλεῖν τουτουσί, Εὐβούλου καὶ Ἀριστοφῶντος καὶ Διοπείθους τῶν περὶ τούτων ψηφισ …

Aristophanes, Lysistrata 132: ἔφησθα σαυτῆς κἂν παρατεμεῖν θἤμισυ.

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.