ἐπιφανεῖς (epiphaneis)

ἐπιφανεῖς is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιφανής, meaning “conspicuous”.

It can also be a form of ἐπιφαίνω, “show, appear”. It is the aorist passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 112 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.69.2: … ὶ καὶ φυλήν, ἀξιῶν τό τε καθ’ ἑαυτόν, ᾧ ὑπῆρχε λαμπρότητός τι, μὴ προδιδόναι τινὰ καὶ τὰς πατρικὰς ἀρετάς, ὧν ἐπιφανεῖς ἦσαν οἱ πρόγονοι, μὴ ἀφανίζειν, πατρίδος τε τῆς ἐλευθερωτάτης ὑπομιμνῄσκων καὶ τῆς ἐν αὐτῇ ἀνεπιτάκτου πᾶσιν …

Plutarch, Alcibiades 27.3: καὶ παρέσχε μὲν ἐναντίαν δόξαν ἀμφοτέροις ἐπιφανείς, ὥστε θαρρεῖν μὲν τοὺς πολεμίους, θορυβεῖσθαι δὲ τοὺς Ἀθηναίους. ταχὺ δὲ σημεῖον ἄρας ἀπὸ τῆς ναυαρχίδος φίλι …

Aesop, Fables 308: … βουλεύσατο, καὶ παρὰ τὸν ποταμὸν ἐλθὼν, καὶ τὴν οἰκείαν ἀξίνην ἐξεπίτηδες ἀφεὶς εἰς τὸ ῥεῦμα, κλαίων ἐκάθητο. Ἐπιφανεὶς οὖν ὁ Ἑρμῆς κἀκείνῳ καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν μαθὼν τοῦ θρήνου, καταβὰς ὁμοίως χρυσῆν ἀξίνην ἐξήνεγκε, καὶ ἤρετο, εἰ ταύ …

All forms of ἐπιφανής (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.