ἐπέσχον (epeschon)

ἐπέσχον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπέχω, meaning “hold on; restrain; extend”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 77 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.514: οἱ μὲν ἐπʼ αὐτάων νήσων ἔβαν, ᾗσιν ἐπέσχον

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 49.9.2: γενέσθαι. ἥ τε γὰρ θάλασσα ἡ ἐκεῖ πᾶσα τῶν νεῶν ἐπεπλήρωτο (πολλαὶ γὰρ οὖσαι ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐπέσχονʼ, καὶ ἡ χώρα ἡ μὲν ἐγγὺς αὐτῆς ὑπὸ τῶν ὡπλισμένων, ἡ δʼ ἄλλη ἡ προσεχὴς ὑπὸ τοῦ λοιποῦ ἑκατέρων ὁμίλου κατείχε …

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.