ἐπετίθεντο (epetithento)

ἐπετίθεντο is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιτίθημι, meaning “put on, place upon; (mid.) attack”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect indicative.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.1.3: … ς· τὸ γὰρ Ῥήγιον ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἐστασίαζε καὶ ἀδύνατα ἦν ἐν τῷ παρόντι τοὺς Λοκροὺς ἀμύνεσθαι, ᾗ καὶ μᾶλλον ἐπετίθεντο.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 41.60.2: ἀναμὶξ ἐμάχοντο. προεῖχον δὲ οἱ Πομπηίειοι τῇ τε ἱππείᾳ καὶ τῇ τοξείᾳ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πόρρωθέν τε ἐγκυκλούμενοί τινας προσβολαῖς αἰφνιδίοις ἐχρῶντο, καὶ συνταράξαντες αὐτοὺς ἐξανεχώρουν, εἶτʼ αὖθις καὶ μάλʼ αὖθις ἐπετίθεντό σφισι, τοτὲ

All forms of ἐπιτίθημι (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.