ἐμπίπτοντες (empiptontes)

ἐμπίπτοντες is an Ancient Greek form of ἐμπίτνω, meaning “fall upon”. It is the present active participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pelopidas 19.4: ὥσπερ γὰρ οἱ ἵπποι θᾶσσον ὑπὸ τοῖς ἅρμασιν ἢ καθʼ αὑτοὺς ἐλαυνόμενοι θέουσιν, οὐχ ὅτι μᾶλλον ἐμπίπτοντες ἐκβιάζονται τὸν ἀέρα τῷ πλήθει ῥηγνύμενον, ἀλλʼ ὅτι συνεκκαίει τὸν θυμὸν ἡ μετʼ ἀλλήλων ἅμιλλα καὶ τὸ φιλόνει …

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.