ἐπελθών (epelthon)

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

Found 202 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2.2: … τε τὰ αὑτῶν ἕκαστοι ὅσον ἀποζῆν καὶ περιουσίαν χρημάτων οὐκ ἔχοντες οὐδὲ γῆν φυτεύοντες, ἄδηλον ὂν ὁπότε τις ἐπελθὼν καὶ ἀτειχίστων ἅμα ὄντων ἄλλος ἀφαιρήσεται, τῆς τε καθ’ ἡμέραν ἀναγκαίου τροφῆς πανταχοῦ ἂν ἡγούμενοι ἐπικρατ …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 1.23: … ν τοὺς θείους παραβαίνοντος νόμους ὠργίζετο ὁ θεός. καὶ Σισάρας ὁ τοῦ Ἰαβὶν βασιλέως τῆς Χαναὰν ἀρχιστράτηγος ἐπελθῶν αὐτοῖς ἐκάκωσέ τε σφόδρα καὶ φόροις ὑπέβαλε· καὶ εἶχον οὕτως ἐπὶ ἐνιαυτοὺς εἵκοσι. Δεβώρα δέ τις προφῆτις, δη …

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.