ἐπιστάσεως (epistaseos)

ἐπιστάσεως is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπίστασις, meaning “stopping, stoppage; sluggishness”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De fortuna 5: … εν καὶ τῇ δεξιᾷ λαμβάνειν τοῦ ὄψου τῇ δʼ ἀριστερᾷ κρατεῖν τὸν ἄρτον, ὡς οὐδὲ τούτων γιγνομένων ἀπὸ τύχης ἀλλʼ ἐπιστάσεως καὶ προσοχῆς δεομένων τὰ δὲ μέγιστα καὶ κυριώτατα πρὸς εὐδαιμονίαν οὐ παρακαλεῖ τὴν φρόνησιν, οὐδὲ μετέχει το …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum 1·2: οἷς πολλῆς πάνυ καὶ ἔμφρονος δεῖ τῆς πρώτης ἐπιστάσεώς τε καὶ ἀγωγῆς, εἰ μέλλουσι μὴ πᾶν ὅ τι κεν ἐπʼ ἀκαιρίμαν γλῶσσαν ἔπος ἔλθῃ λέγειν μηδʼ εἰκῇ συνθήσειν τὰ προσ …

All forms of ἐπίστασις (declension 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.