inquit

inquit is a Latin form of inquam, meaning “say (used with quoted speech)”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative or 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 4,162 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.25.3: … em maris, qui X legionis aquilam gerebat, obtestatus deos, ut ea res legioni feliciter eveniret, ' desilite', inquit, ' milites, nisi vultis aquilam hostibus prodere; ego certe meum rei publicae atque imperatori officium praes …

Cicero, De Divinatione 2.127: … gilanti potius quam dormienti daret. Iam vero quis dicere audeat vera omnia esse somnia? Aliquot somnia vera, inquit Ennius, sed omnia non est necesse. Quae est tandem ista distinctio? quae vera, quae falsa habet? et, si vera …

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.652: Inquit 'et Aegypto tu dabis hospes aquam.'

All forms of inquam (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.