ἐπίστασαι (epistasai)

ἐπίστασαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπίσταμαι, meaning “know, understand, know how to”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 93 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.42: … σὲ θεοῖς ἐχθρὸν ὑπολαμβάνω; οἱ δὲ Θεόδωρον εἰπεῖν τοῦτο. ἰδών τινα περιρραινόμενον ἐπεῖπεν, ὦ κακόδαιμον, οὐκ ἐπίστασαι ὅτι ὥσπερ τῶν ἐν γραμματικῇ ἁμαρτημάτων περιρραινόμενος οὐκ ἂν ἀπαλλαγείης, οὕτως οὐδὲ τῶν ἐν τῷ βίῳ; ἐνεκάλε …

Euripides, Hippolytus 575: ἀπωλόμεσθα. ταῖσδ’ ἐπιστᾶσαι πύλαις

Plato, Euthydemus 293: … δοκεῖς οἷόν τέ τι τῶν ὄντων τοῦτο ὃ τυγχάνει ὄν, αὐτὸ τοῦτο μὴ εἶναι;—ἀλλὰ μὰ Δίʼ οὐκ ἔγωγε.—οὐκοῦν σύ, ἔφη, ἐπίστασαί τι;—ἔγωγε.—οὐκοῦν ἐπιστήμων εἶ, εἴπερ ἐπίστασαι;—πάνυ γε, τούτου γε αὐτοῦ.—οὐδὲν διαφέρει· ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἀνάγκη σε …

All forms of ἐπίσταμαι (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.