ἐμπεσών (empeson)

ἐμπεσών is an Ancient Greek form of ἐμπίτνω, meaning “fall upon”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of ἐμπίπτω, “fall upon, fall into”.

Found 126 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.54: … μοι πεπονθέναι. πολλὰ δὲ καὶ ἀθεώτερον προεφέρετο τοῖς ὁμιλοῦσι, τοῦτο Θεοδώρειον ἀπολαύσας. καὶ ὕστερόν ποτε ἐμπεσὼν εἰς νόσον, ὡς ἔφασκον οἱ ἐν Χαλκίδι—αὐτόθι γὰρ καὶ κατέστρεψε—περίαπτα λαβεῖν ἐπείσθη καὶ μεταγινώσκειν ἐφʼ ο …

Euripides, Helen 1016: ἀθάνατον εἰς ἀθάνατον αἰθέρʼ ἐμπεσών.

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.