ἐπισκόπῳ (episkopo)

ἐπισκόπῳ is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπισκοπέω, meaning “look at, inspect, observe”. It is the 1st person singular present active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of ἐπίσκοπος, “overseer, watcher”. It is the dative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Economics 8.15: … ντα ὁπόσοις ἄρα δεῖ ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ χρῆσθαι. θαυμάσας δέ, ἔφη, τὴν ἐπίσκεψιν αὐτοῦ ἠρόμην τί πράττοι. ὁ δʼ εἶπεν· ἐπισκοπῶ, ἔφη, ὦ ξένε, εἴ τι συμβαίνοι γίγνεσθαι, πῶς κεῖται, ἔφη, τὰ ἐν τῇ νηί, ἢ εἴ τι ἀποστατεῖ ἢ εἰ δυστραπέλως τι …

Clement of Alexandria, Quis Dis Salvetur 42: … πόλεων, ἧς καὶ τοὔνομα λέγουσιν ἔνιοι, καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἀναπαύσας τοὺς ἀδελφούς, ἐπὶ πᾶσι τῷ καθεστῶτι προσβλέψας ἐπισκόπῳ, νεανίσκον ἱκανὸν τῷ σώματι καὶ τὴν ὄψιν ἀστεῖον καὶ θερμὸν τὴν ψυχὴν ἰδών, τοῦτον ἔφη σοὶ παρακατατίθεμαι με …

All forms of ἐπισκοπέω (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.