ἐπιλαμβάνει (epilambanei)

ἐπιλαμβάνει is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιλαμβάνω, meaning “seize, lay hold of”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 8.3.2: … αλᾷ καὶ διίστησι καὶ λύει τὰς πυκνώσεις· διὸ πλείονα τόπον τὰ ζέοντα καὶ μαλασσόμενα καὶ τηκόμενα τῶν σωμάτων ἐπιλαμβάνει· καὶ τοὐναντίον αὖ πάλιν τὰ πηγνύμενα καὶ ψυχόμενα συγχωρεῖ πρὸς ἄλληλα καὶ συνάγεται καὶ ἀπολείπει κενότητας …

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.