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ἐκπέσῃ (ekpese)

ἐκπέσῃ is an Ancient Greek form of ἐκπίπτω, meaning “fall out, be driven out”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active subjunctive.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 450: λόγων ματαίων οὕνεκ’ ἐκπεσῇ χθονός.

Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis 19: … κελεύει καταποντίζειν αὑτὸν ἢ κατορύττειν ὁ θεὸς (οἱ γὰρ ἔλαφοι κατορύττουσι καὶ ἀφανίζουσι κατὰ τῆς γῆς ὅταν ἐκπέσῃ τὸ κέρας), ἐπέσχεν ὀλίγον χρόνον, εἶτα τῶν πραγμάτων παντάπασι μοχθηρῶν γενομένων, ἐξέπεσε.

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.