ἐπιστῆναι (epistenai)

ἐπιστῆναι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐφίστημι, meaning “set upon, place over; (intrans.) stand near”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Marcellus 19.5: ὁ δὲ ὀργισθεὶς καὶ σπασάμενος τὸ ξίφος ἀνεῖλεν αὐτόν. ἕτεροι μὲν οὖν λέγουσιν ἐπιστῆναι μὲν εὐθὺς ὡς ἀποκτενοῦντα ξιφήρη τὸν Ῥωμαῖον, ἐκεῖνον δʼ ἰδόντα δεῖσθαι καὶ ἀντιβολεῖν ἀναμεῖναι βραχὺν χρόνο …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 53.5.1: ὄφελον μὲν γὰρ μηδὲ ἐπιστῆναί ποτε οὕτω τοῖς πράγμασι· τοῦτʼ ἔστιν, ὄφελον μὴ δεδεῆσθαί μου πρὸς τοιοῦτό τι τὴν πόλιν, ἀλλ ἐν εἰρήνῃ καὶ ὁμονοίᾳ, καθάπερ ποτὲ καὶ οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν, καὶ ἡμᾶς τοὺς ἐν τῇδε τῇ ἡλικίᾳ

All forms of ἐφίστημι (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.