εἶπον
(present ἔπω is used by [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 429, 490, etc., but the ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]present in use is φημί, λέγω, ἀγορεύω (see. infr. IV), the future ἐρέω, ἐρῶ, the perfect εἴρηκα), Epic dialect and Lyric poetry ἔειπον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.552, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.25 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; subjunctive εἴπω (Epic dialect εἴπωμι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.392, -ῃσθα 11.224, -ῃσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.87)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; optative εἴποιμ; infinitive εἰπεῖν, Epic dialect -έμεναι, -έμεν, [[ 7.375, 9.688, _Doric dialect_ εἴπην (see. below)] Refs]; participle εἰπών: also aorist 1 εἶπα (ἔειπα [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 17.15, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.153), ὅπερ εἶπα] Refs 5th c.BC+] as I said, [[ 1st c.BC(?): Satyrus Epigrammaticus “Vit.Eur.fragment” 39 xvii 14,] Refs 1st c.BC+] mostly in Ionic dialect Prose, also [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 128, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 3.26, “UPZ” 62.14 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+], and the 2nd pers. indicative and imperative of this form are preferred in Attic dialect, 2nd pers. singular indicative εἶπας [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.106, 108, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; imperative εἶπον (on the accent see[[ 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))] Refs 5th c.BC+], -ατον, -ατ; 3rd.pers. plural εἶπαν [[ “SIG” 333.3 (Samos, 4th c.BC), later εἴπασαν “IG” 7.2225.51 (from Thisbe)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; participle εἴπας [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 42 ] Refs 4th c.BC+], Aeolic dialect εἴπαις [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.46, compare 2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 156 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; 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 [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 55, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 28.2; ϝεῖπαι “Leg.Gort.” 8.15 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; with ἔ- (ϝ) ειπον cf. Sanskrit avocam, reduplicate aorist of vac- 'say'; compare ἔπος):—speak, say, ὣς εἰπών [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.68, etc.; τινί 17.692, etc.; εἰς ἅπαντας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 303 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰπεῖν ἔν τισιν or μετά τισιν speak among a number, [[ 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.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τινί τι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.169, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τι [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica ] Refs 7th c.BC+] [same places], etc.; τι ἔς or πρός τινα, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 487, “Aj.” 292 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰπεῖν περί τινος, ἀμφί τινι, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.347, 14.364: with _genitive_, πατρός τε καὶ υἱέος] Refs 8th c.BC+] of them, [[ 11.174 ] Refs]; εἰπεῖν ὅτι or ὡς to say that.., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.655, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.373, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: but also with infinitive, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.30, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.35, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 473a, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+] b. recite, ἔπη [[ [prev. author] “Ion” 535b. ] Refs]