φάσκω,
used by Epic dialect only in imperfect ἔφασκον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.100 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect φάσκον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.75, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 209: frequently in Trag. and Comedy texts (but perhaps never in _present_ _indicative_, see below)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: as imperfect of φημί [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 110, etc., also 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 742; also _imperative_ φάσκε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1077, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica ad Alexandrum” 1429a6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; subjunctive φάσκω [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 93, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 561 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.4.3, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.11, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 10.11, “PHal.” 1.134 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; optative φάσκοιμι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1037, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 30.27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive φάσκειν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 9, “OT” 462, “Ph.” 1411 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 695 (troch.), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.52, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle φάσκων [[ “IG” 12.66.6, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1382 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (the only part of the Verb used in [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus (3.70) and 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus (“R.” 337e, +others), except ἔφασκεν [prev. author] “Lg.” 901a)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive is not found, ἐφάσκετ᾽ is for ἐφάσκετε [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 114 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. Rare in present indicative [[ before 3rd c.BC: φάσκει 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.16 (φάσκοι Reiske, Wyse), “PMich.Zen.” 82.6 (3rd c.BC), “PSI” 8.921.7 (2nd c.AD), uncertain in 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.17 (variant{φάσκοι}), 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.35, “Geoponica” 9.14.2, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; φάσκεις “PSI” 9.1011.10 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; φάσκουσι (ν) [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator “Epistulae” 11.11, “PCair.Zen.” 21.25, 244.5, +others (3rd c.BC), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 86, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 10.429b, “Geoponica” 5.2.9, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; φάσκομεν is uncertain conjecture (for πάσχομεν) in [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 146.4 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—say, affirm, assert, with accusative et infinitive, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.191, 8.565, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φάσκειν as imperative, in this construction, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 462, “Ph.” 1411 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ φασκόντων χρήσειν saying they would not.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.58; οὐ φάσκων ἀνεκτὸν εἶναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.52 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; the infinitive is frequently to be supplied, ἐν τῇδ᾽ ἔφασκε γῇ (i.e. εὑρεθήσεσθαι) [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 110 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φησίν γε· φάσκων δ᾽ (i.e. ἥξειν) [[ [prev. author] “El.” 319 ] Refs]; τῶν φασκόντων γονέων (i.e. εἶναι) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 538a, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; rarely φ. ὡς.., ὅτι.., [[ 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.12, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.215f: with _accusative_, τοῦτο φ. τοὔπος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 93, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1382, etc.: _absolutely_, ὡς ἔφασκεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 114; φάσκουσα καὶ οὐ φάσκουσα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 190a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]