A.“ἐροίην” X.Cyr.3.1.14, Lib.Or.1.87 : impf. ἤρεον (v.l. εἴρεον) Hp.Epid.2.2.9 : pf. Act. “εἴρηκα” A.Pr.821, Ar.Ra.558, etc. : plpf. “εἰρήκειν” Plu.2.184d:—Pass., pf. “εἴρημαι” Il.4.363, Ar.Lys.13, etc. ; Ion. 3pl. “εἰρέαται” Hdt.7.81, contr. “εἰρῆται” Schwyzer811.17 (Oropus, iv B. C.) ; part. εἰρημένος, Cret. “ϝερημένος” Supp.Epigr.2.509, Arg. “ϝεϝρημένος” Schwyzr 98 (Mycenae) : plpf. “εἴρητο” Il.10.540, Hdt.8.27, etc. : aor. 1 Pass. “ἐρρήθην” Pl.Lg.664d, later “ἐρρέθην” Arist.Cat. 11b12, al. ; lon. “εἰρέθην” Hdt.4.77,156 : fut. “ῥηθήσομαι” Th.1.73, Pl. R.473e, Isoc.8.73, D.27.53 : more freq. εἰρήσομαι, mostly in 3sg. “-ήσεται” Il.23.795, Pi.I.6(5).59, S.Ph.1276, etc. ; part. “-όμενος” Hp. Art.53. —Hom. uses only fut. ἐρέω, 3sg. pf. and plpf. Pass., with part. εἰρημένος, aor. part. ῥήθείς in the phrase ἐπὶ ῥηθέντι δικαίῳ (v. infr.), and fut. Pass. —The place of the pres. εἴρω (q. v.) is supplied by φημί, λέγω or ἀγορεύω ; εἶπον serves as aor. (ϝερε- : ϝρη-, cf. ῥήτρα, ῥητός, Lat. verbum, Engl. word.)
I. I will say or speak, c. acc. rei et dat. pers., Il.1.297 : abs., οὐδὲ πάλιν ἐρέει he will say nothing against it, 9.56 ; ἐν δ᾽ ὑμῖν ἐρέω among you, ib.528, cf. Od. 16.378 : freq. in Att., “ἐρεῖν τι πρός τινα” Pl.R.520a (Act.), 595b, Tht. 179a (both Pass.) ; “τι περί τινος” Id.Phlb.29d, etc. : c. acc. pers., speak of, “κακῶς ἐρεῖν τινα” Thgn.796, E.Alc.705 : and c. dupl. acc., ἐρεῖ δέ μ᾽..τάδε ib.954, cf. Pl.Cri.48a:—Pass., “μῦθος..εἰρημένος ἔστω” Il.8.524 ; “εἰρημένα μυθολογεύειν” Od.12.453 ; λίαν εἰρημένος too true, A.Pr. 1031 ; ἐπὶ ῥηθέντι δικαίῳ after justice has been pronounced, Od.18.414 ; ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον εἰρήσθω περί τινος let this suffice, Arist.EN1117b21.
II. I will tell, proclaim, “ἔπος” Il.1.419, etc. ; Ἠὼς..Ζηνὶ φόως ἐρέουσα announce it, 2.49 ; “ἐρέω τιν᾽ ὑμῖν αἶνον” Archil.89.1.
2. tell, order, c. dat. pers. et inf., X.HG3.2.6, etc. : c. acc. et inf., Id.Cyr.8.3.6:—Pass., “εἴρητο συλλέγεσθαι τὸν στρατόν” orders had been given.., Hdt.7.26, etc.
