ἐπιλαβέσθαι (epilabesthai)

ἐπιλαβέσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιλαμβάνω, meaning “seize, lay hold of”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 6.1: … τὰ ταῦτα γίνεται διαμαρτία τὸν Ἀννίβου. βουλόμενος γὰρ ἀποσπάσαι τὸν Φαβίου πορρωτέρω τὸ στράτευμα καὶ πεδίων ἐπιλαβέσθαι προνομὰς ἐχόντων, ἐκέλευσε τοὺς ὁδηγοὺς μετὰ δεῖπνον εὐθὺς ἡγεῖσθαι πρὸς τὸ Κασινάτον. οἱ δὲ τῆς φωνῆς διὰ βα …

All forms of ἐπιλαμβάνω (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.