| − | |Your own source on λέγω contradicts you: Do you remember that you at first didn't recognize that εἶπον was the aorist of λέγω? Well, as your source shows: '''For the meaning "say, speak", forms derived from other roots are more commonly used (suppletion): the future ἐρέω (eréō) and perfect εἴρηκᾰ (eírēka) from εἴρω (eírō), and the aorist εἶπον (eîpon).''' So, used in sense of "to lay down", Mark would have written ἔλεξεν, not εἶπον! | + | |Your own source on λέγω contradicts you: Do you remember that you at first didn't recognize that εἶπον was the aorist of λέγω? Well, as your source ([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BB%CE%AD%CE%B3%CF%89#Usage_notes_2 Usage Notes]) shows: '''For the meaning "say, speak", forms derived from other roots are more commonly used (suppletion): the future ἐρέω (eréō) and perfect εἴρηκᾰ (eírēka) from εἴρω (eírō), and the aorist εἶπον (eîpon).''' So, used in sense of "to lay down", Mark would have written ἔλεξεν, not εἶπον! |