ἐκπλαγείς (ekplageis)

ἐκπλαγείς is an Ancient Greek form of ἐκπλήσσω, meaning “astonish, terrify”. It is the aorist passive participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of ἐκπλαγής, “panic-stricken”.

Found 69 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.113.5: ὁ δὲ κῆρυξ ὡς ἤκουσε καὶ ἔγνω ὅτι ἡ ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως βοήθεια διέφθαρται, ἀνοιμώξας καὶ ἐκπλαγεὶς τῷ μεγέθει τῶν παρόντων κακῶν ἀπῆλθεν εὐθὺς ἄπρακτος καὶ οὐκέτι ἀπῄτει τοὺς νεκρούς.

Euripides, Medea 8: ἔρωτι θυμὸν ἐκπλαγεῖσ’ Ἰάσονος·

Xenophon, Anabasis 1.8.20: … διὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων κενὰ ἡνιόχων. οἱ δʼ ἐπεὶ προΐδοιεν, διίσταντο· ἔστι δʼ ὅστις καὶ κατελήφθη ὥσπερ ἐν ἱπποδρόμῳ ἐκπλαγείς· καὶ οὐδὲν μέντοι οὐδὲ τοῦτον παθεῖν ἔφασαν, οὐδʼ ἄλλος δὲ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ μάχῃ ἔπαθεν οὐδεὶς οὐδέν, …

All forms of ἐκπλήσσω (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.