ἐφάπτεται (ephaptetai)

ἐφάπτεται is an Ancient Greek form of ἐφάπτω, meaning “fasten on, lay hold of”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta 20: … ἀπὸ τῆς τραπέζης ὥσπερ Ἁρπυίας τὰς ὀρέξεις διασοβήσει ταῖς Μούσαις. οὐ γὰρ ὁ μὲν Σκύθης, ὅταν πίνῃ, πολλάκις ἐφάπτεται τοῦ τόξου καὶ παραψάλλει τὴν νευράν, ἐκλυόμενον ὑπὸ τῆς μέθης ἀνακαλούμενος τὸν θυμόν, Ἕλλην δʼ ἀνὴρ φοβήσετα …

Aristophanes, Wealth 1068: ἐφάπτεταί σου λανθάνειν δοκῶν ἐμέ.

All forms of ἐφάπτω (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.