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ἐπιθείς (epitheis)

ἐπιθείς is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιτίθημι, meaning “put on, place upon; (mid.) attack”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 243: ἐπιθεὶς ἀνάψεις; ὡς σφαγέντες αὐτίκα

Plutarch, Timoleon 35.4: … διάταξις ἐδόκει καλῶς ἔχειν, ἧς ἐκεῖνος μὴ προσάψαιτο μηδὲ κατακοσμήσειεν, ὥσπερ ἔργῳ συντελουμένῳ δημιουργὸς ἐπιθείς τινα χάριν θεοφιλῆ καὶ πρέπουσαν.

All forms of ἐπιτίθημι (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.