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ἐπιγένηται (epigenetai)

ἐπιγένηται is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιγίγνομαι, meaning “come after, follow, be born after”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle subjunctive.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos 8: … ν οὐδὲν εἶναί φασιν ἀρετῆς ὄφελος ὀλιγοχρονίου τί γάρ, ἂν μέλλοντι ναυαγεῖν εὐθὺς ἢ κατακρημνίζεσθαι φρόνησις ἐπιγένηται; τί δʼ ἂν ὁ Λίχας, ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἡρακλέους ἀποσφενδονώμενος, εἰς ἀρετὴν ἐκ κακίας μεταβάλῃ ταῦτʼ οὖν οὐ μόνον παρὰ …

Hippocrates, Vectiarius 33: … θάνατοι· τὰ μέγιστα καὶ τὰ ἀνωτάτω μάλιστα καὶ τάχιστα. ποὺς δὲ ἐκβὰς, σπασμὸς, γάγγραινα· καὶ ἢν ἐμβληθέντι ἐπιγένηταί τι τουτέων, ἐκβάλλοντι ἐλπὶς, εἴ τις ἄρα ἐλπίς· οὐ γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν χαλώντων οἱ σπασμοὶ, ἀλλʼ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐντεινόντων.

All forms of ἐπιγίγνομαι (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.