ἐπίσταται (epistatai)

ἐπίσταται is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπίσταμαι, meaning “know, understand, know how to”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 132 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.35.2: … τῆς ἀληθείας βεβαιοῦται. ὅ τε γὰρ ξυνειδὼς καὶ εὔνους ἀκροατὴς τάχ’ ἄν τι ἐνδεεστέρως πρὸς ἃ βούλεταί τε καὶ ἐπίσταται νομίσειε δηλοῦσθαι, ὅ τε ἄπειρος ἔστιν ἃ καὶ πλεονάζεσθαι, διὰ φθόνον, εἴ τι ὑπὲρ τὴν αὑτοῦ φύσιν ἀκούοι. μέχ …

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1284: ὦ ναοφύλακες βώμιοί τʼ ἐπιστάται,

Sophocles, Ajax 869: κοὐδεὶς ἐπίσταταί με συμμαθεῖν τόπος.

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.