κατέλαβεν (katelaben)

κατέλαβεν is an Ancient Greek form of καταλαμβάνω, meaning “seize, overtake, find”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 82 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.7.1: … πολεμίαν δὲ οὖσαν, ξυλλέξας Ἀθηναίους τε ὀλίγους ἐκ τῶν φρουρίων καὶ τῶν ἐκείνῃ ξυμμάχων πλῆθος προδιδομένην κατέλαβεν. καὶ παραχρῆμα ἐπιβοηθησάντων Χαλκιδέων καὶ Βοττιαίων ἐξεκρούσθη τε καὶ ἀπέβαλε πολλοὺς τῶν στρατιωτῶν.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 2.51.3: … ἀπῄεσαν, ἀκολουθήσαντες δʼ αὐτοῖς τῶν Σαβίνων τινὲς ὑπʼ ὀργῆς, ἐσκηνωμένοις παρὰ τὴν ὁδόν ʽἑσπέρα γὰρ αὐτοὺς κατέλαβενʼ ἐπιτίθενται καθεύδουσι καὶ τά τε χρήματʼ αὐτοὺς ἀφαιροῦνται καὶ ὁπόσους ἐν ταῖς κοίταις ἔτι κατέλαβον ἀποσφάτ …

All forms of καταλαμβάνω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.