ἐπιεικῶν (epieikon)

ἐπιεικῶν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιεικής, meaning “reasonable, fitting, decent”.

It can also be a form of ἐπεικάζω, “surmise, guess; surmising”. It is the future active participle vocative singular masculine.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.89: … εγαλόψυχος· καὶ τοῦτον εὐγενῆ φασι· καὶ τῆς γε εὐγενείας αὕτη κρατίστη. τῆς ἄρα εὐγενείας τὸ μὲν ἀπὸ προγόνων ἐπιεικῶν, τὸ δὲ δυναστῶν, τὸ δὲ ἐνδόξων, τὸ δʼ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτοῦ καλοκαγαθίας. Τὸ κάλλος διαιρεῖται εἰς τρία· ἓν μὲν γὰρ α …

All forms of ἐπιεικής (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.