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ἐπισπόμενοι (epispomenoi)

ἐπισπόμενοι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐφέπω, meaning “pursue, follow after; attend to”. It is the aorist middle participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.327: ἀφραδέως, ἢ θύνετʼ ἐπισπόμενοι νεότητι.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 42.11.3: … τοὺς προφύλακας ὡς καὶ δαίμονές τινες ἐκ- πλήξασαι τὸ πῦρ ἐς τὸ χαράκωμα ἁπανταχόθεν ἅμα ἐνέβαλον, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐπισπόμενοί σφισι πολλοὺς μὲν ταραττομένους πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ καθεύδοντας ἐφόνευσαν, καὶ ἐκεῖνό τε εὐθὺς κατέσχον, καὶ τὸ να …

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.