ἐπέθετο (epetheto)

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

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 45.2: ἀνοχὰς δὲ ἑφθημέρους πρὸς Ἀργείους ποιησάμενος, φυλάξας αὐτοὺς τῇ τρίτῃ νυκτὶ κοιμωμένους διὰ τὸ πεποιθέναι ταῖς σπονδαῖς, ἐπέθετο· καὶ τοὺς μὲν ἀπέκτεινε, τοὺς δὲ αἰχμαλώτους ἔλαβεν.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 48.5.5: ἑαυτῷ Πιέταν ἐπέθετὀ, καὶ ὁ Καῖσαρ τὸν μὲν Μᾶρκον οὐδὲν δῆθεν ᾐτιᾶτο, μὴ καὶ ἐκπολεμώσειεν αὐτὸν τὰ ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ ἔθνη διέποντα, ἐκείνοις δὲ δὴ καὶ ἐπεκάλει καὶ ἀντέπραττεν ὡς καὶ παρὰ τὴν γνώμην αὐτοῦ πάντα ποιοῦσι καὶ δυναστείας ἰδίας ἐπιθυμοῦσιν.

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.