ῥηθέν (rhethen)

ῥηθέν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐρῶ, meaning “I will say, will speak (future of λέγω)”. It is the aorist passive participle accusative singular neuter.

It can also be a form of ἐρώ, “(garbled form; cf. ἐρῶ, I shall say)”.

Found 105 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Electra 622: προσηκάμην τὸ ῥηθέν. ἐν ποίοις τόποις;

Plutarch, Lycurgus 15.2: … μοις ἀπειθοῦσι· τιμῆς δὲ καὶ θεραπείας ἣν νέοι πρεσβυτέροις παρεῖχον, ἐστέρηντο. ὅθεν καὶ τὸ πρὸς Δερκυλλίδαν ῥηθὲν οὐδεὶς ἐμέμψατο, καίπερ εὐδόκιμον ὄντα στρατηγόν. ἐπιόντι γὰρ αὐτῷ τῶν νεωτέρων τις ἕδρας οὐχ ὑπεῖξεν, εἰπών, …

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 1.11: … ταῖς λεύκαις πρόσφυσις μέν τις γίγνεται τῆς τροφῆς, οὐ μὴν ἐξομοίωσίς γε. καὶ δῆλον ἐν τῷδε τὸ μικρῷ πρόσθεν Ῥηθὲν ὡς ὀρθῶς ἐλέγετο τὸ δεῖν πρόσθεσιν μὲν πρῶτον, ἐφεξῆς δὲ πρόσφύσιν, ἔπειτʼ ἐξομοίωσιν γενέσθαι τῷ μέλλοντι τρ …

All forms of ἐρῶ (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.