ἐπιστάμενον (epistamenon)

ἐπιστάμενον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπίσταμαι, meaning “know, understand, know how to”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative singular neuter.

It can also be a form of ἐπιστάζω, “drip upon”.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 10.1: ταῦτα τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις πυνθανομένοις ἐδόκει τὰς τῶν στρατηγιώντων χάριτας καὶ παραγγελίας ἐάσαντας αὐτοὺς καλεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν ἄνδρα νοῦν ἔχοντα καὶ πράγμασι χρῆσθαι μεγάλοις ἐπιστάμενον.

Plutarch, De Heroditi malignate 15: … ὸ ἀνέκαθεν ἀποφαίνεται βάρβαρον · τοῖς δὲ θεοῖς λοιδορούμενος ἐν τῷ Σόλωνος προσωπείῳ ταῦτʼ εἴρηκεν ὦ Κροῖσε, ἐπιστάμενόν με τὸ θεῖον πᾶν ἐὸν φθονερόν τε καὶ ταραχῶδες ἐπειρωτᾷς ἀνθρωπηίων πέρι πραγμάτων· ἃ γὰρ αὐτὸς ἐφρόνει περὶ τ …

All forms of ἐπίσταμαι (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.