ἐπιδεῖν (epidein)

ἐπιδεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιδέω, meaning “lack, need”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 108 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.132.3: Ἰσχαγόρας μέντοι καὶ Ἀμεινίας καὶ Ἀριστεὺς αὐτοί τε ὡς Βρασίδαν ἀφίκοντο, ἐπιδεῖν πεμψάντων Λακεδαιμονίων τὰ πράγματα, καὶ τῶν ἡβώντων αὐτῶν παρανόμως ἄνδρας ἐξῆγον ἐκ Σπάρτης, ὥστε τῶν πόλεω …

Hippocrates, De fracturis 28: … ντα ἰσχνά. ὅσαι μὲν οὖν λεπτῶν πάνυ ὀστέων ἀποστάσιες, οὐδεμιῆς μεγάλης μεταβολῆς δέονται, ἀλλʼ ἢ χαλαρωτέρως ἐπίδεῖν, ὡς μὴ ἀπολαμβάνηται τὸ πῦον, ἀλλʼ εὐαπόῤῥυτον ᾖ, καὶ πυκνότερον μετεπιδεῖν, ἔστʼ ἂν ἀποστῇ τὸ ὀστέον, καὶ νά …

All forms of ἐπιδέω (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.