ἐπέθεντο (epethento)

ἐπέθεντο is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιτίθημι, meaning “put on, place upon; (mid.) attack”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist middle indicative.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.24.1: … χρήματα ταῦτα ἐς ἄλλο τι, ἢν μὴ οἱ πολέμιοι νηίτῃ στρατῷ ἐπιπλέωσι τῇ πόλει καὶ δέῃ ἀμύνασθαι, θάνατον ζημίαν ἐπέθεντο.

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 7.2.1: … ται, πρᾶγμα πίστιν ἔχον ὅτι γίγνεται, τὴν δʼ αἰτίαν ἔχον ἄπορον ἢ παγχάλεπον. ἀλλʼ ἔν γε Δελφοῖς παρὰ δεῖπνον ἐπέθεντό τινες ἡμῖν τῶν ἑταίρων, ὡς οὐ μόνον γαστρὸς ἀπὸ σξηνειδερυς μαμλεπλείης βουλὴν καὶ μῆτιν ἀμείνω γιγνομένην ἀλ …

All forms of ἐπιτίθημι (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.