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προσπίπτει (prospiptei)

προσπίπτει is an Ancient Greek form of προσπίτνω, meaning “fall upon, fall at (the feet of)”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.11.7: πᾶσι γὰρ ἐν τοῖς ὄμμασι καὶ ἐν τῷ παραυτίκα ὁρᾶν πάσχοντάς τι ἄηθες ὀργὴ προσπίπτει· καὶ οἱ λογισμῷ ἐλάχιστα χρώμενοι θυμῷ πλεῖστα ἐς ἔργον καθίστανται.

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.