ἐπιστῆσαι (epistesai)

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

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Solon 14.3: … λόγου καὶ νόμου μεταβολὴν ὁρῶντες ἐργώδη καὶ χαλεπὴν οὖσαν, οὐκ ἔφευγον ἕνα τὸν δικαιότατον καὶ φρονιμώτατον ἐπιστῆσαι τοῖς πράγμασιν.

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 5.18.6: … α μὲν Ταξίλην τὸν Ἰνδόν· καὶ Ταξίλης προσιππεύσας ἐφʼ ὅσον οἱ ἀσφαλὲς ἐφαίνετο τῷ ἐλέφαντι ὃς ἔφερε τὸν Πῶρον ἐπιστῆσαί τε ἠξίου τὸ θηρίον, οὐ γὰρ εἶναί οἱ ἔτι φεύγειν, καὶ ἀκοῦσαι τῶν παρʼ Ἀλεξάνδρου λόγων.

Polybius, Histories 2.61.11: οὗ τί κάλλιον ἔργον ἢ γέγονεν ἢ γένοιτʼ ἄν; ἐπὶ τί δʼ ἂν μᾶλλον συγγραφεὺς ἐπιστήσαι τοὺς ἀκούοντας; διὰ τίνος δʼ ἔργου μᾶλλον ἂν παρορμήσαι πρὸς φυλακὴν πίστεως καὶ πρὸς ἀληθινῶν πραγμάτων καὶ βεβαίων κοινωνίαν; ὧν οὐδεμίαν ἐποιήσατο μνήμην Φύλαρχος,

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.