ἐπεχείρει (epecheirei)

ἐπεχείρει is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιχειρέω, meaning “attempt, undertake”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 100 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.3.19: … ησι, καταπυγοσύνη ταῦτʼ ἐστὶ πρὸς κρέας μέγα. ἀλλὰ μὴν οὐδὲ καθίζων ἔλεγε πρὸς τὰς θέσεις, φασί, περιπατῶν δὲ ἐπεχείρει. διὰ δὴ οὖν τὸ φιλογενναῖον ἐτιμᾶτο ἐν τῇ πόλει. οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκπεπατηκὼς ἦν διατρίβων ἐν τῷ κήπῳ, παρʼ ὃν …

Appianus of Alexandria, Punic Wars 18.124: Σκιπίων δὲ γενομένης ἡμέρας ἐπεχειρει τῷ χώματι· καὶ γὰρ ἦν εὔκαιρον ἐπιτείχισμα τοῦ λιμένος. κριοῖς οὖν το παρατείχισμα τύπτων, καὶ μηχανήματα πολ …

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.