ἐκπίπτει (ekpiptei)

ἐκπίπτει is an Ancient Greek form of ἐκπίπτω, meaning “fall out, be driven out”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 95 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.1.32: … ηνύουσιν. οἱ δʼ ἐπειδὴ διαπρεσβευόμενοι ἠλογοῦντο, πρὸς τοὺς Κῴους πολεμοῦσι. καὶ πολλῶν ἑκατέρωθεν πιπτόντων ἐκπίπτει χρησμὸς δοῦναι τῷ σοφωτάτῳ· καὶ ἀμφότεροι συνῄνεσαν Θαλῇ. ὁ δὲ μετὰ τὴν περίοδον τῷ Διδυμεῖ τίθησιν Ἀπόλλωνι.

Hippocrates, Vectiarius 8: … ἐκβάντα ἢ ἔνθα ἢ ἔνθα· κατάτασις μὲν, ἐν ᾗ ὁ βραχίων ἐπιδεῖται· οὕτω γὰρ τὸ καμπύλον τοῦ ἀγκῶνος οὐ κωλύσει. Ἐκπίπτει δὲ μάλιστα ἐς τὸ πρὸς πλευρία μέρος. Τὰς δὲ κατορθώσιας, ἀπάγοντα ὅτι πλεῖστον, ὡς μὴ ψαύσῃ τῆς κορώνης ἡ κεφ …

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.