ἐπίθεσιν (epithesin)

ἐπίθεσιν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπίθεσις, meaning “attack; laying on”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 67 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.49: … ροαισθόμενος τὸ ἐφʼ ἑαυτῷ διεκώλυσεν. ᾅξας γὰρ εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν μετὰ δόρατος καὶ ἀσπίδος προεῖπεν αὐτοῖς τὴν ἐπίθεσιν τοῦ Πεισιστράτου· καὶ οὐ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ βοηθεῖν ἕτοιμος εἶναι, λέγων ταῦτα· ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τῶν μὲν σοφώτερ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 37.4.4: … αὶ ἐκεῖ τε πολλοὺς ἐφόνευσαν ἑκάτεροι, καὶ ἑτέρους ἐς τὰς ὕλας καταφυγόντας κατέπρησαν, “ἰὼ Κρόνια ” πρὸς τὴν ἐπίθεσίν σφων τὴν τότε γενομένην ἐπιλέγοντες.

All forms of ἐπίθεσις (declension 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.