ἐπιπεσών (epipeson)

ἐπιπεσών is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιπίπτω, meaning “fall upon”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.29.3: … σσοῦ ἑκκαίδεκα μάλιστα σταδίους), ἅμα δὲ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ πόλει προσέκειτο οὔσῃ οὐ μεγάλῃ, καὶ αἱρεῖ ἀφυλάκτοις τε ἐπιπεσὼν καὶ ἀπροσδοκήτοις μὴ ἄν ποτέ τινας σφίσιν ἀπὸ θαλάσσης τοσοῦτον ἐπαναβάντας ἐπιθέσθαι, τοῦ τείχους ἀσθενοῦς ὄ …

Plutarch, Sertorius 19.5: … νάμενος, ἐν τούτῳ δὲ Σερτώριος ἀνέστρεψε τὸ καθʼ αὑτὸν νενικηκώς· καὶ τοῖς Ἀφρανίου διʼ ἀταξίαν ταρασσομένοις ἐπιπεσών πολλοὺς διέφθειρε.

All forms of ἐπιπίπτω (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.