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ἐπιχειροῦντες (epicheirountes)

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

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.21.3: … χαλεπωτάτους ἂν [αὐτοῖς ] φαίνεσθαι· ᾧ γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι τοὺς πέλας, οὐ δυνάμει ἔστιν ὅτε προύχοντες, τῷ δὲ θράσει ἐπιχειροῦντες καταφοβοῦσι, καὶ σφᾶς ἂν τὸ αὐτὸ ὁμοίως τοῖς ἐναντίοις ὑποσχεῖν.

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.