ἐπέστειλε (epesteile)

ἐπέστειλε is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιστέλλω, meaning “send a message, order”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.1.44: … τι καὶ Μιλήσιοι τυραννεόμεθα-ἐχθαίρεις γὰρ πάντας αἰσυμνήτασ—ἀλλὰ τέρποιʼ ἂν σὺν τοῖς ἑτάροις ἡμῖν καταβιούς. ἐπέστειλε δέ τοι καὶ Βίης ἥκειν ἐς Πριήνην· σὺ δὲ εἰ προσηνέστερόν τοι τὸ Πριηνέων ἄστυ, κεῖθι οἰκέειν, καὶ αὐτοὶ παρὰ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 49.18.4: … ἔν τε Μιδαείῳ τῆς Φρυγίας κατέλαβον καὶ περισχόντες ἐζώγρησαν. μαθὼν δὲ τοῦτο ὁ Ἀντώνιος εὐθὺς μὲν ὑπʼ ὀργῆς ἐπέστειλέ σφισιν ἵνα ἀποθάνῃ, αὖθις δʼ οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον μετανοήσας ἵνα σωθῇ

All forms of ἐπιστέλλω (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.