ἐξέπληξε (exeplexe)

ἐξέπληξε is an Ancient Greek form of ἐκπλήγνυμι, meaning “strike out of, amaze”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.36.2: … ῶς τε καὶ μόλις περιελθὼν ἔλαθε, καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ μετεώρου ἐξαπίνης ἀναφανεὶς κατὰ νώτου αὐτῶν τοὺς μὲν τῷ ἀδοκήτῳ ἐξέπληξε, τοὺς δὲ ἃ προσεδέχοντο ἰδόντας πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἐπέρρωσεν.

Julian, Emperor of Rome, The Caesars 5: … ξεν αὑτοῦ φαίνεσθαι σπουδαιότερος. καὶ ὁ Διόνυσος πρὸς αὐτόν, Τί δῆτα, εἶπεν, ὦ παππίδιον σπουδάζεις; καὶ ὅς, Ἐξέπληξέ με ὁ γέρων οὑτοσί, ὁ Σάτυρος, ἔφη, καὶ πεποίηκεν ἐκλαθόμενον ἐμαυτοῦ τὰς Ὁμηρικὰς προβαλέσθαι μούσας. ἀλλά σε …

Procopius, De Bellis 4.19.15: ἀφ’ οὗ δὴ τέλμα βαθὺ γεγονὸς καὶ ἀπόρευτον ἐξέπληξέ τε αὐτοὺς ὅτι μάλιστα καὶ ἐς ἀπορίαν κατέστησε.

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.