ἐπείγεσθαι (epeigesthai)

ἐπείγεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπείγω, meaning “press, urge on; (mid.) hasten”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.81.7: τῶν δὲ Ἑλληνικῶν στρατοπέδων οὐδέτερον ᾔσθετο τῆς μάχης διὰ τὸ πολὺ προελθεῖν αὐτοὺς καὶ στρατόπεδον οἰηθῆναι καταληψομένους ἐπείγεσθαι.

Euripides, Alcestis 1152: αὖθις τόδ’ ἔσται, νῦν δ’ ἐπείγεσθαί με δεῖ.

All forms of ἐπείγω (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.