ἐπιστάτας (epistatas)

ἐπιστάτας is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιστάτης, meaning “one who stands near; suppliant”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.7.34: … Ἀβδηρίτης ἤ, ὡς ἔνιοι, Μιλήσιος. οὗτος μάγων τινῶν διήκουσε καὶ Χαλδαίων, Ξέρξου τοῦ βασιλέως τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπιστάτας καταλιπόντος, ἡνίκα ἐξενίσθη παρʼ αὐτῷ, καθά φησι καὶ Ἡρόδοτος· παρʼ ὧν τά τε περὶ θεολογίας καὶ ἀστρολογίας …

All forms of ἐπιστάτης (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.