περιπεσών (peripeson)

περιπεσών is an Ancient Greek form of περιπίπτω, meaning “fall upon, embrace”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 65 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Orestes 367: λουτροῖσιν ἀλόχου περιπεσὼν πανυστάτοις.

Plutarch, Marcellus 24.6: … σκυλεύσας τοὺς πολεμίους νεκροὺς καὶ θάψας τοὺς φίλους ἐδίωκεν αὖθις· καὶ πολλὰς μὲν ὑφέντος ἐνέδρας οὐδεμιᾷ περιπεσών, ἐν δὲ πᾶσι τοῖς ἀκροβολισμοῖς πλεῖον ἔχων ἐθαυμάζετο. διὸ καὶ τῶν ἀρχαιρεσίων ἐπειγόντων ἔδοξε τῇ βουλῇ μᾶλλ …

Aesop, Fables 354: … α ἐτῶν, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ διὰ τριάκοντα.“ Καὶ ὃς οὐδὲν μελλήσας τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ ὤμοσε μὴ εἰληφέναι τὴν παρακαταθήκην. Περιπεσὼν δὲ τῷ Ὅρκῳ, καὶ ἀπαγόμενος ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ κρημνὸν, ᾐτιᾶτο αὐτὸν, ὡς, προειπὼν αὐτῷ διὰ τριάκοντα ἐτῶν ἐπιπορεύ …

All forms of περιπίπτω (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.