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ἐπιθέω

ε-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιθέω ἐπιθεύσομαι

Structure: ἐπι (Prefix) + θέ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to run at or after

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπίθω ἐπίθεις ἐπίθει
Dual ἐπίθειτον ἐπίθειτον
Plural ἐπίθουμεν ἐπίθειτε ἐπίθουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπίθω ἐπίθῃς ἐπίθῃ
Dual ἐπίθητον ἐπίθητον
Plural ἐπίθωμεν ἐπίθητε ἐπίθωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἐπίθοιμι ἐπίθοις ἐπίθοι
Dual ἐπίθοιτον ἐπιθοίτην
Plural ἐπίθοιμεν ἐπίθοιτε ἐπίθοιεν
ImperativeSingular ἐπίθει ἐπιθεῖτω
Dual ἐπίθειτον ἐπιθεῖτων
Plural ἐπίθειτε ἐπιθοῦντων, ἐπιθεῖτωσαν
Infinitive ἐπίθειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιθων ἐπιθουντος ἐπιθουσα ἐπιθουσης ἐπιθουν ἐπιθουντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπίθουμαι ἐπίθει, ἐπίθῃ ἐπίθειται
Dual ἐπίθεισθον ἐπίθεισθον
Plural ἐπιθοῦμεθα ἐπίθεισθε ἐπίθουνται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπίθωμαι ἐπίθῃ ἐπίθηται
Dual ἐπίθησθον ἐπίθησθον
Plural ἐπιθώμεθα ἐπίθησθε ἐπίθωνται
OptativeSingular ἐπιθοίμην ἐπίθοιο ἐπίθοιτο
Dual ἐπίθοισθον ἐπιθοίσθην
Plural ἐπιθοίμεθα ἐπίθοισθε ἐπίθοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐπίθου ἐπιθεῖσθω
Dual ἐπίθεισθον ἐπιθεῖσθων
Plural ἐπίθεισθε ἐπιθεῖσθων, ἐπιθεῖσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐπίθεισθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιθουμενος ἐπιθουμενου ἐπιθουμενη ἐπιθουμενης ἐπιθουμενον ἐπιθουμενου

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὡσ δὲ τοῦτ’ ἔγνωσαν οἱ νεωστὶ κεκρατημένοι τῷ πολέμῳ Οὐολοῦσκοι, πρεσβειῶν ἀπορρήτοισ διαποστολαῖσ ἐνῆγον ἀλλήλουσ εἰσ τὸν κατ’ αὐτῶν πόλεμον, ὡσ ἀδυνάτων ἐσομένων, εἴ τισ αὐτοῖσ ἐπίθοιτο κεκακωμένοισ πολέμῳ τε καὶ λιμῷ ἀντέχειν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 12 5:1)
  • ἔδεισαν οὖν οἱ Ἰλλυριοὶ μὴ ἐν ὁδῷ σφίσιν οὖσιν ἐπιθοῖτο, καὶ πρέσβεισ πέμψαντεσ ἐσ Ῥώμην ᾔτουν τε συγγνώμην τῶν γεγονότων καὶ ἐσ φίλιαν ἑαυτοὺσ καὶ συμμαχίαν ἐδίδοσαν, ὡσ περὶ ἔθνουσ ἀλκίμου μάλιστα σεμνολογούμενοι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 3 2:2)
  • οὕτω δὴ ἐχόντων ἡγεῖτο, εἴ τισ καὶ ἐπίθοιτο νυκτὸσ ἢ ἡμέρασ, ὥσπερ ἂν εἰσ ἐνέδραν εἰσ τὸ στρατόπεδον τοὺσ ἐπιτιθεμένουσ ἐμπίπτειν. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 15:2)
  • καὶ ὡσ ἀγρυπνίᾳ διηνεκεῖ καὶ μάχαισ ἐπαλλήλοισ δεδαπανημένοι δυνατοὶ μὲν εἰε͂ν οὐδὲ βιαζομένουσ ἔτι φέρειν, καὶ δόλῳ δ’ ἂν ἁλοῖεν, εἴ τισ ἐπιθοῖτο· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 383:1)

Synonyms

  1. to run at or after

Derived

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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