ἐτράπησαν (etrapesan)

ἐτράπησαν is an Ancient Greek form of τρέπω, meaning “to turn”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist passive indicative.

It can also be a form of τραπέω, “tread grapes”.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Parallela minora 7: … εν Ἀλβανοῖς, βασιλέως ὄντος Μετίου Φουφετίου, καὶ τὴν μάχην πολλάκις ὑπερέθετο. οἱ δέ, ἡττωμένου, εἰς εὐωχίαν ἐτράπησαν· οἰνωμένοις δʼ ἐπέθετο, καὶ τὸν βασιλέα δύο πώλοις συζεύξας διεσπάραξεν· ὡς Ἀλέξαρχος ἐν τετάρτῃ Ἰταλικῶν.

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 5.356: … γίνεται, ἣν δʼ ἐφοβοῦντο ἧτταν οὗτοι ταύτην Ἑβραῖοι παθόντες ἔγνωσαν αὐτοὺς μάτην ἐπὶ τῇ κιβωτῷ τεθαρσηκότας· ἐτράπησάν τε γὰρ εὐθὺς εἰς χεῖρας ἐλθόντες τῶν πολεμίων καὶ ἀπέβαλον εἰς τρισμυρίους, ἐν οἷς ἔπεσον καὶ οἱ τοῦ ἀρχιερέω …

All forms of τρέπω (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.