ἐπελθόντες (epelthontes)

ἐπελθόντες is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπέρχομαι, meaning “come upon, approach, attack”. It is the aorist active participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 82 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.24.5: τὰ δὲ τελευταῖα πρὸ τοῦδε τοῦ πολέμου ὁ δῆμος αὐτῶν ἐξεδίωξε τοὺς δυνατούς, οἱ δὲ ἐπελθόντες μετὰ τῶν βαρβάρων ἐλῄζοντο τοὺς ἐν τῇ πόλει κατά τε γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλασσαν.

Proclus, Chrestomathy 1·2: … αὶ τὰ περὶ Οἰδίπουν καὶ τὴν Ἡρακλέους μανίαν καὶ τὰ περὶ Θησέα καὶ Ἀριάδνην· ἔπειτα τοὺς ἡγεμόνας ἀθροίζουσϊν ἐπελθόντε̈ς τὴν Ἑλλάδα· καὶ μαίνεσθαι προσποιησάμενον τὸν Ὀδϋσσέα ἐπὶ τῶ μὴ θέλειν συνστρατεύεσθαι ἐφώρασαν· Παλαμήδους ὑ …

All forms of ἐπέρχομαι (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.