ἐπιοῦσι (epiousi)

ἐπιοῦσι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπἰόομαι, meaning “(garbled form)”. It is the present active participle dative plural masculine.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 8.2: ἐπεὶ δʼ ὁ Κομίνιος διελὼν τὴν δύναμιν αὐτὸς μὲν ἀπήντα τοῖς ἔξωθεν ἐπιοῦσι τῶν Οὐολούσκων, Λάρκιον δὲ Τίτον, ἄνδρα Ῥωμαίων ἐν τοῖς ἀρίστοις, ἐπὶ τῆς πολιορκίας ἀπέλιπε, καταφρονήσαντες …

Procopius, De Bellis 6.2.11: χρόνον δὲ πολὺν ἡ μάχη ἐν χερσὶν οὐκ ἐγίνετο, ἀλλ’ ἐπιοῦσί τε ὑπεχώρουν ἀλλήλοις καὶ τὰς διώξεις ἑκάτεροι ἀγχιστρόφους ποιούμενοι ἐῴκεισαν βουλομένοις ἐς τοῦτο σφίσι δαπανᾶσθαι τὸν τῆς ἡμέρας χρόνον.

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.