ἐπεῖχεν (epeichen)

ἐπεῖχεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπέχω, meaning “hold on; restrain; extend”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae 21: … ατῶδες, ἅτερος δὲ τῶν μύθων πιθανώτερος, ὡς ἄρα τοῖς περὶ Ῥωμύλον καὶ Ῥῶμον ἐκτεθεῖσιν οὐ μόνον λύκαινα θηλὴν ἐπεῖχεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ δρυοκολάπτης τις ἐπιφοιτῶν ἐψώμιζεν; ἐπιεικῶς γὰρ ἔτι καὶ νῦν τοῖς ὑπορείοις καὶ δρυμώδεσι τόποις ὅ …

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.