Sense

1. one who stands near or by, a suppliant
2. one's rear-rank man, the right- or left-hand man, the front-rank man)
3. one who stands or is mounted upon
4. one who is set over, a commander, president, steward, a, master
5. the President
6. an overseer, superintendent
7. the caldron, which stood over

Examples

• οὗτοσ δ’ ἐπιστατεῖ νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν οὔτε πλείω χρόνον οὔτε δὶσ τὸν αὐτὸν γενέσθαι. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 44 1:2)
• πότερα πρὸσ τῶν θεῶν ἐπιστατεῖ τισ τοῦ βίου νυνὶ τύχη ἄγροικοσ ἡμῶν οὔτε παιδείαν ὅλωσ εἰδυῖα, τί τὸ κακὸν ποτ’· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 13 1:1)
• οὐ ψεῦδισ ὁ μάρτυσ ἔργμασιν ἐπιστατεῖ, Αἴγινα, τεῶν Διόσ τ’ ἐκγόνων. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 7 14:2)
• ἀλλ’ οὔτι παιὼν τῷδ’ ἐπιστατεῖ λόγῳ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:5)
• ἔτι τοίνυν καὶ αἱ θυσίαι πᾶσαι καὶ οἷσ μαντικὴ ἐπιστατεῖ ‐ ταῦτα δ’ ἐστὶν ἡ περὶ θεούσ τε καὶ ἀνθρώπουσ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ κοινωνία ‐ οὐ περὶ ἄλλο τί ἐστιν ἢ περὶ Ἔρωτοσ φυλακήν τε καὶ ἰάσιν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 134:3)

Similar forms

• ἐπίσταται (105)
• ἐπιστάτην (45)
• ἐπιστάτης (36)
• ἐπιστάτας (28)
• ἐπιστάται (23)
• ἐπιστατῶν (14)
• ἐπιστατεῖν (11)
• ἐπιστάταις (10)
• ἐπιστατεῖ (10)
• ἐπίστατο (10)
• ἐπιστάτῃ (9)
• ἐπιστάτου (7)
• Ἐπιστάτα (7)
• ἐπίσταταί (6)
• ἐπιστατοῦσαν (5)
• ἐπιστατοῦντα (4)
• ἐπιστατῇ (2)
• ἐπιστατητέον (2)
• ἐπιστατήσας (2)
• ἐπιστατικῆς (2)
• ἐπιστατήσειν (2)
• ἐπιστατικὴν (2)
• ἐπιστατήσῃ (1)
• ἐπιστατοῦν (1)
• ἐπιστατῶσι (1)
• ἐπιστατήσειέ (1)
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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.