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ἐπικείμενον (epikeimenon)

ἐπικείμενον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπίκειμαι, meaning “lie upon, press on”. It is the perfect middle/passive participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 14.1: … ἐπίδυε καὶ συνελείβετο παρʼ αὐτὴν τὴν θάλατταν, ὁρῶν ὁ Αἰμίλιος μέγα καὶ κατηρεφὲς δένδρεσιν ὄρος τὸν Ὄλυμπον ἐπικείμενον, καὶ τεκμαιρόμενος τῇ χλωρότητι τῆς ὕλης ναμάτων ἔχειν ἀρχὰς διὰ βάθους ὑποφερομένων, ἀναπνοὰς αὐτοῖς καὶ φρέ …

All forms of ἐπίκειμαι (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.