κατελάμβανεν (katelambanen)

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

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 19.1: γιγνομένης δὲ τῆς ἐφόδου παρῆν ὁ Αἰμίλιος, καὶ κατελάμβανεν ἤδη τοὺς ἐν τοῖς ἀγήμασι Μακεδόνας ἄκρας τάς σαρίσας προσερηρεικότας τοῖς θυρεοῖς τῶν Ῥωμαίων καὶ μὴ προσιεμένους εἰς ἐφικτὸν αὐτῶν τάς μαχαίρας.

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.