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ἐπίσχες (episches)

ἐπίσχες is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπέχω, meaning “hold on; restrain; extend”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist active imperative.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 550: Μενέλα’, ἐπίσχες· μὴ τάχυν’ ἄνευ δίκης

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.