Strong G2036εἶπον
to say
- Transliteration
- epō
- Pronunciation
- ep'-o
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- Greek Verb
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εἶπον, 2 aorist of obsolete present ἔπω (cf. Veitch), used as aorist of λέγω, which see
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εἶπον
(present ἔπω is used by [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 429, 490, etc., but the)]present in use is φημί, λέγω, ἀγορεύω (see. infr. IV), the future ἐρέω, ἐρῶ, the perfect εἴρηκα), Epic dialect and Lyric poetry ἔειπον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.552, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.25)]; subjunctive εἴπω (Epic dialect εἴπωμι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.392, -ῃσθα 11.224, -ῃσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.87))]; optative εἴποιμ; infinitive εἰπεῖν, Epic dialect -έμεναι, -έμεν, [Refs (7.375, 9.688, _Doric dialect_ εἴπην (see. below))]; participle εἰπών: also aorist 1 εἶπα (ἔειπα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 17.15, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.153), ὅπερ εἶπα)] as I said, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC(?): Satyrus Epigrammaticus “Vit.Eur.fragment” 39 xvii 14,)] mostly in Ionic dialect Prose, also [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 128, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 3.26, “UPZ” 62.14 (2nd c.BC))], and the 2nd pers. indicative and imperative of this form are preferred in Attic dialect, 2nd pers. singular indicative εἶπας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.106, 108, etc.)]; imperative εἶπον (on the accent see[Refs 5th c.BC+ (Hdn.Gr. 1.460) 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 154, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 71d, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 891, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.11, εἰπάτω (ἀν-ειπάτω “IG” 22.1186.19 (4th c.BC), but ἀν-ειπέτω [prev. work]1247.13 (3rd c.BC)))], -ατον, -ατ; 3rd.pers. plural εἶπαν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 333.3 (Samos, 4th c.BC), later εἴπασαν “IG” 7.2225.51 (from Thisbe))]; participle εἴπας [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 42)], Aeolic dialect εἴπαις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.46, compare 2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 156)]; in compounds middle ἀπείπασθαι (which see), διείπασθαι (which see), but never in good Attic dialect: (reduplicate aorist 2 from ϝεπ- 'say'; ϝείπην only conjecture in [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 55, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 28.2; ϝεῖπαι “Leg.Gort.” 8.15)]; with ἔ- (ϝ) ειπον cf. Sanskrit avocam, reduplicate aorist of vac- 'say'; compare ἔπος):—speak, say, ὣς εἰπών [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.68, etc.; τινί 17.692, etc.; εἰς ἅπαντας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 303)]; εἰπεῖν ἔν τισιν or μετά τισιν speak among a number, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.445, 3.85, etc.: with _accusative_ _cognate_, ἔπος, μῦθον, θεοπρόπιον, οὐνόματα, etc., 3.204, 1.552, 85, 17.260, etc.)]; τινί τι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.169, +others)]; τι [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica)] [same places], etc.; τι ἔς or πρός τινα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 487, “Aj.” 292)]; εἰπεῖν περί τινος, ἀμφί τινι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.347, 14.364: with _genitive_, πατρός τε καὶ υἱέος)] of them, [Refs (11.174)]; εἰπεῖν ὅτι or ὡς to say that.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.655, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.373, etc.)]: but also with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.30, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.35, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 473a, etc.)] b. recite, ἔπη [Refs ([prev. author] “Ion” 535b.)]
2 in parenthesis, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν so to say, limiting a general statement, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 714, etc.)]; speaking loosely, opposed to ὄντως, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 656e)]; opposed to ἀκριβεῖ λόγῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 341b; ὡς εἰπεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 258e, +others; ὡς ἀξίως εἰπεῖν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 651b36: without ὡς, οὐ πολλῷ λόγῳ εἰπεῖν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.61; ἐς τὸ ἀκριβὲς εἰπεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.82; σχεδὸν εἰπεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 237c: καθόλου εἰπεῖν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 12a27; ἡ ἁπλῶς εἰπεῖν ἀπόδειξις [prev. author] “APo.” 75b23)]; τὸ ξύμπαν εἶπαι, εἰπεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.143, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.138.)]
3 εἴποι τις as one might say, uncertain reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.35.1; ὥσπερ εἴποι τις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 180 (assuming variant); ὡς εἴποι τις 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 64.5 (assuming variant).)]
II with accusative person, address, accost one, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.210, etc.)]
II.2 name, mention, [Refs ([prev. work] 1.90, etc.)]
II.3 call one so and so, πολλοί τέ μιν ἐσθλὸν ἔειπον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.334, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 43, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 465, etc.)]
II.4 with double accusative person et of things, tell or proclaim so of one, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.479 (where ἀνιόντα depends on εἴποι))]; εἰπεῖν τινα ὅτι.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 14.22; ἀτάσθαλόν τι εἰ. τινά 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.314; κακὰ εἰ. τινά 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 649; μηδὲν φλαῦρον εἰ. τ. [prev. author] “Nu.” 834; ἐῢ εἰ. τινά 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.302)]; εἰ. τεθνεῶτ᾽ Ὀρέστην speak of him as dead, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 682.)]
II.5 celebrate, of poets, Αἴαντος βίαν [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 7.2.6 (Antip. Sid.).)]
III with dative person et infinitive, order or command one to.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.76, 22.262, etc.; also εἰπεῖν πρός τινα, with)]infinitive, [Refs (16.151)]: with accusative et infinitive, εἶπον τὰς παῖδας δεῦρ᾽ ἄγειν τινά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 932, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 59e, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.26: followed by ἵνα)], frequently in NT, [NT (NT.Matt.4.3, +others)]
IV propose, move a measure in the assembly, εἰπὼν τὰ βέλτιστα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.12; εἰπεῖν τὰ δέοντα [prev. work]15; εἶπε ψήφισμα [prev. author] 24.11)]: frequently as a formal prefix to decrees and laws, Λάχης εἶπε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.118, compare “IG” 12.24, +others)]; compare ἀγορεύω.
V plead, δίκην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.508; δικίδιον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 347.)]
VI promise, offer, χρυσὸν εἶφ᾽ ὃς ἂν κτάνῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 33.)]
VII imperative εἰπέ sometimes used in addressing several persons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 328, “Av.” 366, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.10.)]
ἔπω,
A say, call, name, ἤν Πέρσειον ἔπουσιν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 429, compare 490, “Th.” 508. (Prob. invented by 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus, as _present_ of εἶπον.))]
(present ἔπω is used by [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 429, 490, etc., but the)]present in use is φημί, λέγω, ἀγορεύω (see. infr. IV), the future ἐρέω, ἐρῶ, the perfect εἴρηκα), Epic dialect and Lyric poetry ἔειπον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.552, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.25)]; subjunctive εἴπω (Epic dialect εἴπωμι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.392, -ῃσθα 11.224, -ῃσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.87))]; optative εἴποιμ; infinitive εἰπεῖν, Epic dialect -έμεναι, -έμεν, [Refs (7.375, 9.688, _Doric dialect_ εἴπην (see. below))]; participle εἰπών: also aorist 1 εἶπα (ἔειπα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 17.15, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.153), ὅπερ εἶπα)] as I said, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC(?): Satyrus Epigrammaticus “Vit.Eur.fragment” 39 xvii 14,)] mostly in Ionic dialect Prose, also [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 128, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 3.26, “UPZ” 62.14 (2nd c.BC))], and the 2nd pers. indicative and imperative of this form are preferred in Attic dialect, 2nd pers. singular indicative εἶπας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.106, 108, etc.)]; imperative εἶπον (on the accent see[Refs 5th c.BC+ (Hdn.Gr. 1.460) 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 154, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 71d, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 891, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.11, εἰπάτω (ἀν-ειπάτω “IG” 22.1186.19 (4th c.BC), but ἀν-ειπέτω [prev. work]1247.13 (3rd c.BC)))], -ατον, -ατ; 3rd.pers. plural εἶπαν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 333.3 (Samos, 4th c.BC), later εἴπασαν “IG” 7.2225.51 (from Thisbe))]; participle εἴπας [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 42)], Aeolic dialect εἴπαις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.46, compare 2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 156)]; in compounds middle ἀπείπασθαι (which see), διείπασθαι (which see), but never in good Attic dialect: (reduplicate aorist 2 from ϝεπ- 'say'; ϝείπην only conjecture in [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 55, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 28.2; ϝεῖπαι “Leg.Gort.” 8.15)]; with ἔ- (ϝ) ειπον cf. Sanskrit avocam, reduplicate aorist of vac- 'say'; compare ἔπος):—speak, say, ὣς εἰπών [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.68, etc.; τινί 17.692, etc.; εἰς ἅπαντας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 303)]; εἰπεῖν ἔν τισιν or μετά τισιν speak among a number, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.445, 3.85, etc.: with _accusative_ _cognate_, ἔπος, μῦθον, θεοπρόπιον, οὐνόματα, etc., 3.204, 1.552, 85, 17.260, etc.)]; τινί τι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.169, +others)]; τι [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica)] [same places], etc.; τι ἔς or πρός τινα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 487, “Aj.” 292)]; εἰπεῖν περί τινος, ἀμφί τινι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.347, 14.364: with _genitive_, πατρός τε καὶ υἱέος)] of them, [Refs (11.174)]; εἰπεῖν ὅτι or ὡς to say that.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.655, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.373, etc.)]: but also with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.30, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.35, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 473a, etc.)] b. recite, ἔπη [Refs ([prev. author] “Ion” 535b.)]
2 in parenthesis, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν so to say, limiting a general statement, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 714, etc.)]; speaking loosely, opposed to ὄντως, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 656e)]; opposed to ἀκριβεῖ λόγῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 341b; ὡς εἰπεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 258e, +others; ὡς ἀξίως εἰπεῖν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 651b36: without ὡς, οὐ πολλῷ λόγῳ εἰπεῖν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.61; ἐς τὸ ἀκριβὲς εἰπεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.82; σχεδὸν εἰπεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 237c: καθόλου εἰπεῖν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 12a27; ἡ ἁπλῶς εἰπεῖν ἀπόδειξις [prev. author] “APo.” 75b23)]; τὸ ξύμπαν εἶπαι, εἰπεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.143, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.138.)]
3 εἴποι τις as one might say, uncertain reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.35.1; ὥσπερ εἴποι τις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 180 (assuming variant); ὡς εἴποι τις 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 64.5 (assuming variant).)]
II with accusative person, address, accost one, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.210, etc.)]
II.2 name, mention, [Refs ([prev. work] 1.90, etc.)]
II.3 call one so and so, πολλοί τέ μιν ἐσθλὸν ἔειπον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.334, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 43, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 465, etc.)]
II.4 with double accusative person et of things, tell or proclaim so of one, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.479 (where ἀνιόντα depends on εἴποι))]; εἰπεῖν τινα ὅτι.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 14.22; ἀτάσθαλόν τι εἰ. τινά 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.314; κακὰ εἰ. τινά 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 649; μηδὲν φλαῦρον εἰ. τ. [prev. author] “Nu.” 834; ἐῢ εἰ. τινά 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.302)]; εἰ. τεθνεῶτ᾽ Ὀρέστην speak of him as dead, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 682.)]
II.5 celebrate, of poets, Αἴαντος βίαν [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 7.2.6 (Antip. Sid.).)]
III with dative person et infinitive, order or command one to.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.76, 22.262, etc.; also εἰπεῖν πρός τινα, with)]infinitive, [Refs (16.151)]: with accusative et infinitive, εἶπον τὰς παῖδας δεῦρ᾽ ἄγειν τινά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 932, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 59e, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.26: followed by ἵνα)], frequently in NT, [NT (NT.Matt.4.3, +others)]
IV propose, move a measure in the assembly, εἰπὼν τὰ βέλτιστα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.12; εἰπεῖν τὰ δέοντα [prev. work]15; εἶπε ψήφισμα [prev. author] 24.11)]: frequently as a formal prefix to decrees and laws, Λάχης εἶπε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.118, compare “IG” 12.24, +others)]; compare ἀγορεύω.
V plead, δίκην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.508; δικίδιον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 347.)]
VI promise, offer, χρυσὸν εἶφ᾽ ὃς ἂν κτάνῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 33.)]
VII imperative εἰπέ sometimes used in addressing several persons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 328, “Av.” 366, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.10.)]
ἔπω,
A say, call, name, ἤν Πέρσειον ἔπουσιν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 429, compare 490, “Th.” 508. (Prob. invented by 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus, as _present_ of εἶπον.))]