ἐμπεσόν (empeson)

ἐμπεσόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐμπίτνω, meaning “fall upon”. It is the aorist active participle vocative singular masculine or 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De primo frigido 19: … ἰς ἑαυτὴν τὸ νικώμενον τὸ μὲν γὰρ ὑπὸ θερμοῦ κρατηθὲν ἐκπυροῦται, τὸ ὑπὸ πνεύματος ἐξαεροῦται, τὸ δʼ εἰς ὕδωρ ἐμπεσόν, ἂν μὴ διαφύγῃ,- καθυγραίνεται, συνδιαχεόμενον. ἀνάγκη δὴ καὶ τὰ ψυχόμενα κομιδῇ μεταβάλλειν εἰς τὸ πρώτως ψυ …

Homeric Hymns, Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 199: ἔσχεν ἄχος, ἕνεκα βροτοῦ ἀνέρος ἔμπεσον εὐνῇ·

Plato, Timaeus 68: … ευκοῦ τε καὶ μέλανος, τὸ δὲ ὠχρὸν λευκοῦ ξανθῷ μειγνυμένου. λαμπρῷ δὲ λευκὸν συνελθὸν καὶ εἰς μέλαν κατακορὲς ἐμπεσὸν κυανοῦν χρῶμα ἀποτελεῖται, κυανοῦ δὲ λευκῷ κεραννυμένου γλαυκόν, πυρροῦ δὲ μέλανι πράσιον. τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ἀπὸ τού …

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.