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

• γίγνεται δὲ εἰ τῷ τοῦ πρώτου στίχου λοχαγῷ ὁ τοῦ δευτέρου λοχαγὸσ ἐπισταθείη, τῷ δὲ τούτου ἐπιστάτῃ ὁ τοῦ δευτέρου λοχαγοῦ ἐπιστάτησ, καὶ ἐφεξῆσ οὕτωσ. (Arrian, chapter 7 2:2)
• παραστάτησ δὲ πᾶσ ὁ συζυγῶν ὀνομάζεται, λοχαγὸσ μὲν ὁ πρῶτοσ τῷ δευτέρῳ λοχαγῷ, ἐπιστάτησ δὲ ὁ πρῶτοσ τῷ δευτέρῳ ἐπιστάτῃ, καὶ τοῦτο ἐφεξῆσ ἔστε ἐπὶ τοὺσ οὐραγοὺσ τῶν λόχων. (Arrian, chapter 7 2:3)
• τῷ δὲ τούτου ἐπιστάτῃ οἱ τῶν ἄλλων λοχαγῶν ἐπιστάται, καὶ ἐφεξῆσ ὡσαύτωσ. (Arrian, chapter 22 4:1)
• ἐκ τίνοσ φόβου ποτὲ βουθυτοῦντά μ’ ἀμφὶ βωμὸν ἔσχετ’ ἐναλίῳ θεῷ τοῦδ’ ἐπιστάτῃ Κολωνοῦ; (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 3:35)
• ταύτῃ ἄρα αὐτῷ πρακτέον καὶ γυμναστέον καὶ ἐδεστέον γε καὶ ποτέον, ᾗ ἂν τῷ ἑνὶ δοκῇ, τῷ ἐπιστάτῃ καὶ ἐπαί̈οντι, μᾶλλον ἢ ᾗ σύμπασι τοῖσ ἄλλοισ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 27:4)

Similar forms

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