προσπεσόντων (prospesonton)

προσπεσόντων is an Ancient Greek form of προσπίτνω, meaning “fall upon, fall at (the feet of)”. It is the aorist active participle genitive plural neuter.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.101.5: δείσαντες δὲ οἱ Συρακόσιοι (ἦσαν γὰρ καὶ τῶν ἱππέων αὐτοῖς οἱ πολλοὶ ἐνταῦθα) ὁμόσε χωροῦσι τοῖς τριακοσίοις τούτοις, καὶ τρέπουσί τε αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐσβάλλουσιν ἐς τὸ δεξιὸν κέρας τῶν Ἀθηναίων· καὶ προσπεσόντων αὐτῶν ξυνεφοβήθη καὶ ἡ πρώτη φυλὴ τοῦ κέρως.

Polybius, Histories 8.24.3: προσπεσόντων δὲ τούτων εἰς Τάραντα καὶ τοὺς Θουρίους, ἠγανάκτει τὰ πλήθη. [ Προσπεσόντων.]

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.