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ἔφρασε (ephrase)

ἔφρασε is an Ancient Greek form of φράζω, meaning “to point out, tell; (mid.) consider”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.145.1: … παραινεῖν αὐτὸν ἐψηφίσαντο ἃ ἐκέλευε, καὶ τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις ἀπεκρίναντο τῇ ἐκείνου γνώμῃ, καθ’ ἕκαστά τε ὡς ἔφρασε καὶ τὸ ξύμπαν, οὐδὲν κελευόμενοι ποιήσειν, δίκῃ δὲ κατὰ τὰς ξυνθήκας ἑτοῖμοι εἶναι διαλύεσθαι περὶ τῶν ἐγκλημ …

Procopius, De Bellis 8.32.31: Τουτίλαν γοῦν Ῥωμαῖοι οὕτως ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἀφανισθῆναι οὐκ ἔγνωσαν, ἕως αὐτοῖς γυνὴ μία, Γότθα γένος, ἔφρασέ τε καὶ τὸν τάφον ἐπέδειξεν.

All forms of φράζω (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.