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ἐπέστειλεν (epesteilen)

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

Found 66 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.6.93: … Κλεόβουλον ἀποφθίμενον καταπενθεῖ ἥδε πάτρα Λίνδος πόντῳ ἀγαλλομένη. Ἀπεφθέγξατο· μέτρον ἄριστον. καὶ Σόλωνι ἐπέστειλεν οὕτω· Κλεόβουλος Σόλωνι “Πολλοὶ μέν τιν ἔασιν ἕταροι καὶ οἶκος πάντη· φαμὶ δὲ ἐγὼν ποτανεστάταν ἐσεῖσθαι Σόλω …

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 1.13.11: … ίαν τὸν τοῦ Τωβία. ὡς δὲ ἠκούσθη περὶ αὐτοῦ, ἐμηνύθη τῷ Ἀβγάρῳ ὅτι ἐλήλυθεν ἀπόστολος ἐνταῦθα τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, καθὰ ἐπέστειλέν σοι.

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.