ἐπιστραφείς (epistrapheis)

ἐπιστραφείς is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιστρέφω, meaning “turn around”. It is the aorist passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Phocion 8.3: … αττομένων. ἐπεὶ δὲ λέγων ποτὲ γνώμην πρὸς τὸν δῆμον εὐδοκίμει καὶ πάντας ὁμαλῶς ἑώρα τὸν λόγον ἀποδεχομένους, ἐπιστραφεὶς πρὸς τοὺς φίλους εἶπεν· οὐ δή πού τι κακὸν λέγων ἐμαυτὸν λέληθα;

New Testament, John 21.20: Ἐπιστραφεὶς ὁ Πέτρος βλέπει τὸν μαθητὴν ὃν ἠγάπα ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀκολουθοῦντα, ὃς καὶ ἀνέπεσεν ἐν τῷ δείπνῳ ἐπὶ τὸ στῆθος αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν Κύριε, τίς ἐστιν ὁ παραδιδούς σε;

Lucian of Samosata, De luctu 20: ὣς ἄρα μιν εἰπόντα τέλος θανάτοιο κάλυψε. πρὸς Διός, ἐὰν λέγῃ ταῦτα ὁ νεκρὸς ἐπιστραφείς, ἀνακλίνας αὑτὸν ἐπʼ ἀγκῶνος, οὐκ ἂν οἰόμεθα δικαιότατα ἂν αὐτὸν εἰπεῖν; ἀλλʼ ὅμως οἱ μάταιοι καὶ βοῶσι καὶ μ …

All forms of ἐπιστρέφω (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.