ἐπιχειροῦντα (epicheirounta)

ἐπιχειροῦντα is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιχειρέω, meaning “attempt, undertake”. It is the present active participle nominative plural neuter.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.84: … . Ἄλλη ἐπὶ τῆς εἰκόνος. Ἄλλη ἐπὶ τῆς Διονυσίου θυγατρός. Πρὸς τὸν οἰόμενον ἀτιμάζεσθαι. Πρὸς τὸν συμβουλεύειν ἐπιχειροῦντα. Ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ διατριβῶν αὐτόν φασιν ἓξ γεγραφέναι, οἱ δʼ οὐδʼ ὅλως γράψαι· ὧν ἐστι καὶ Σωσικράτης ὁ Ῥόδιος.

Plutarch, De cohibenda ira 10·2: … ς λεκτέον μὴ σπεῦδε μηδὲ βόα μηδʼ ἐπείγου, καὶ μᾶλλον ἃ θέλεις γενήσεται καὶ βέλτιον καὶ γὰρ παῖδʼ ἰδὼν πατὴρ ἐπιχειροῦντά τι σιδηρίῳ διελεῖν ἢ τεμεῖν, αὐτὸς λαβὼν τὸ σιδήριον ἐποίησε· καὶ τοῦ θυμοῦ τὴν τιμωρίαν παρελόμενος αὐτὸς ἀσ …

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.