ἐπείσθην (epeisthen)

ἐπείσθην is an Ancient Greek form of ἐφίημι, meaning “send upon, let loose; (mid.) aim at, desire”.

It can also be a form of ἐφέζομαι, “sit upon”. It is the 3rd person dual pluperfect middle/passive indicative.

It can also be a form of ἐπιέννυμι, “put on over”.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes 19·2: … ξης καὶ δυνάμεως, ἣν διὰ σὲ καρποῦμαι πολλαῖς ἐπίφθονος οὖσα κακαῖς γυναιξὶν ὧν φάρμακα δεδοικυῖα καὶ μηχανὰς ἐπείσθην ἀντιμηχανήσασθαι, μωρὰ μὲν ἴσως καὶ γυναικεῖα, θανάτου δʼ οὐκ ἄξια πλὴν εἰ κριτῇ σοι δόξειε φίλτρων ἕνεκα καὶ …

All forms of ἐφίημι (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.