ἐπιβολήν (epibolen)

ἐπιβολήν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιβολή, meaning “attempt, purpose; imposing”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 123 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.130: Εἶναι δὲ τὸν ἔρωτα ἐπιβολὴν φιλοποιίας διὰ κάλλος ἐμφαινόμενον· καὶ μὴ εἶναι συνουσίας, ἀλλὰ φιλίας. τὸν γοῦν Θρασωνίδην καίπερ ἐν ἐξουσί …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 39.42.1: … , οὐδʼ ἀνταναχθῆναι αὐτοῖς διά τε τὸ πλῆθος καὶ διὰ τὸ μέγεθος τῶν νεῶν τήν τε ἐκ τοῦ πνεύματος φορὰν καὶ τὴν ἐπιβολήν σφων ἐτόλμησεν, ἀλλὰ παρεσκευάζετο ὡς καὶ πρὸς τῇ γῇ τὰς προσβολὰς αὐτῶν ἀμυνούμενος καὶ τὰ σκάφη παντελῶς ἐκ …

All forms of ἐπιβολή (declension 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.