ἐπῆλθε (epelthe)

ἐπῆλθε is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπέρχομαι, meaning “come upon, approach, attack”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 113 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.89.2: … τῶν σεισμῶν κατεχόντων, τῆς Εὐβοίας ἐν Ὀροβίαις ἡ θάλασσα ἐπανελθοῦσα ἀπὸ τῆς τότε οὔσης γῆς καὶ κυματωθεῖσα ἐπῆλθε τῆς πόλεως μέρος τι, καὶ τὸ μὲν κατέκλυσε,τὸ δ’ ὑπενόστησε, καὶ θάλασσα νῦν ἐστὶ πρότερον οὖσα γῆ· καὶ ἀνθρώπ …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 5.8.1: ἑστιωμένων ἡμῶν ποτʼ ἐν Χαιρωνείᾳ καὶ παρατεθείσης παντοδαπῆς ὀπώρας, ἐπῆλθέ τινι τῶν κατακειμένων ἀναφθέγξασθαι τὸν στίχον ἐκεῖνον συκέαι τε γλυκεραὶ καὶ μηλέαι ἀγλαόκαρποι καὶ ἐλαῖαι τ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 47.30.2: … , προσεποιήσατο. κἀκ τούτων ἡμέρας τινὰς ἰσχύσας (τά τε γὰρ ἄλλα καὶ τὸ ναυτικὸν αὐτῷ διὰ ταχέων ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίας ἐπῆλθἐ διέβαλεν ἐς Ἄραδον, ὅπως καὶ παρʼ ἐκείνων καὶ χρήματα καὶ

All forms of ἐπέρχομαι (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.