ἐρῶ,
Attic dialect future of εἴρω (B), [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.9, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 45, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 61, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+], Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἐρέω (later as present, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 484, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 9.400a, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.878, +others) ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; optative ἐροίην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.14, 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 1.87: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]imperfect ἤρεον (variant{εἴρεον}) [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 2.2.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect active εἴρηκα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 821, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 558, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect εἰρήκειν [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.184d ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, perfect εἴρημαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.363, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 13, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural εἰρέαται [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.81 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], contraction εἰρῆται [[ “Schwyzer” 811.17 (Oropus, 4th c.BC) ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; participle εἰρημένος, Cretan dialect ϝερημένος [[ “Supp.epigram” 2.509, argument ϝεϝρημένος “Schwyzr” 98 (from Mycenae)] Refs]: pluperfect εἴρητο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.540, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.27, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist 1 passive ἐρρήθην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 664d, later ἐρρέθην 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 11b12, +others; Ionic εἰρέθην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.77, 156 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future ῥηθήσομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.73, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 473e, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.73, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.53: more frequently εἰρήσομαι,] Refs 5th c.BC+] mostly in 3rd.pers. singular -ήσεται[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.795, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 6(5).59, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1276, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; participle -όμενος[[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 53. — 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only ] Refs 8th c.BC+]future ἐρέω, 3rd.pers. singular perfect and pluperfect passive, with participle εἰρημένος, aorist participle ῥήθείς in the phrase ἐπὶ ῥηθέντι δικαίῳ (see. below), and future passive —The place of the present εἴρω (which see) is supplied by φημί, λέγω or ἀγορεύ; εἶπον serves as aorist (ϝερε-: ϝρη-, compare ῥήτρα, ῥητός, Latin verbum, Engl. word.)